Atlassian, every mention
8 scenes (said by Jay Simons), the whole family · ← back to Atlassian
every year anyone Harry Stebbings 206Jason Lemkin 67Jay Simons 29Rory O'Driscoll 20Scott Farquhar 17Jean-Michel Lemieux 12Mike Cannon-Brookes 11Rich Wong 4Eno Reyes 4Brian Halligan 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Atlassian comes up
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 5:36 Jay Simons Alex and I were in the foxhole together in the earliest years of building Atlassian, and much of Atlassian's young operational maturity, he deserves a lot of credit for building. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:03 Jay Simons I'll focus on enterprise companies with the one I know best, you know, Atlassian as an example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:45 Jay Simons And I think one of the mistakes maybe that companies make is, and I learned this in the company prior to Atlassian, there's a gravitational pull towards sort of the big service integrators, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Jay Simons Extensibility in Atlassian products from a really early age. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:48 Jay Simons You know, in Atlassian's case, our second product, Confluence, was created in year two of the company, which was incredibly risky, I think, to diversify focus so early. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:12 Jay Simons So it was sort of one that I, I was close to based on my 12 years at Atlassian, but incredible product, fanatical customers, and like Atlassian, you know, the ability to serve 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:39 Jay Simons Even when I think about Alassian, like Alassian probably in Excel's portfolio was probably, I'm guessing, like rated as, you know, maybe a B company because like our growth profile wasn't, you know, we weren't growing at a hundred percent. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:05 Jay Simons And, you know, Atlassian, you know, was never a triple, triple, double, double, double company. 3 times in the scene