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Cannon-Brookes: Some Atlassian AI features are 1,000x cheaper to run today
“Some of our features are a thousand times cheaper to run than when we introduced them today.”
Mike Cannon-Brookes Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 19:02 Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Gonto: 80% to 85% of top PLG revenue comes from enterprise accounts
“If you look at all of the companies like Atlassians of the world, like the Twilios of the world, Outsido, or even Bursell, most of them, what ends up happening is that 80, 85% of the revenue comes from mid-market and enterprise, 15% come from SMBs, but that 15…”
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 40:38 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Simons: Atlassian never followed the 'triple, triple, double, double' growth model
“And, you know, Atlassian, you know, was never a triple, triple, double, double, double company. It was this kind of methodical, reasonable grower.”
Jay Simons Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 31:05 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
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Cannon-Brookes: Atlassian cloud revenue grew 26% past $5B with 44% RPO growth
“We're accelerating our cloud revenue, which did a 26% quarter growth rate at well north of five, six billion at the moment. And we grew our RPO by 44%.”
Mike Cannon-Brookes Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 15:37 Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Simons: Atlassian built a partner network instead of direct enterprise sales
“We invested at Atlassian, we invested early on, we had built this self-service online e-commerce flywheel for customers to buy the product. And as we moved into the enterprise, we had an opportunity to either invest directly in building an enterprise sales org…”
Jay Simons Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 11:17 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
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Iconic Growth logged $8.5B Netskope and $1B DX exits in one week
“And Iconic had two billion dollar exits this week, Iconic Growth, okay? It had Netscope, which no one talked about, eight and a half billion dollar exit, and they congratulated themselves on DX, which Atlassian bought for a billion”
Jason Lemkin Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 30:00 The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Farquhar: Atlassian Raised $100K in 5 Days with $5 Promo
“So we said, let's make our software five dollars for five users for five days Only. And we ran basically a one week campaign to just see, well, is there a desire for a five years of version of our software? And by the way, all the money goes to charity. And so…”
Scott Farquhar Oct 9, 2023 ▶ 44:17 Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Farquhar: Atlassian reached ~$4B revenue and $40B-$50B valuation in 2023
“We're about four billion dollar business, like revenue wise, a value to 40 to fifty billion dollars, you know, today in 20, 23.”
Scott Farquhar Oct 9, 2023 ▶ 16:39 Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Atlassian had 200 employees on Stride before selling to Slack
“And so in the end, like, you know, deciding to shut down that product, we had a couple hundred people working on it. It was hard because a lot of people had poured their light, you know, heart and soul into it. We sold it to Slack”
Scott Farquhar Oct 9, 2023 ▶ 34:23 Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Simons: Atlassian has over 500 partner resellers and solution providers
“And, you know, when we thought about it, even sort of one of the examples that I mentioned, a partner economy of resellers and solution providers, we, I think Atlassian now probably has over 500 of those.”
Jay Simons Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 8:36 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
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Simons: Atlassian enabled third-party add-on ecosystems from an early stage
“And by the way, the other dimension that I mentioned was, it was important to us is we had Extensibility in Atlassian products from a really early age. And so one thing that partners could do is they could extend them and kind of build add-ons and customizatio…”
Jay Simons Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 18:01 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
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Simons: Atlassian launched its second product Confluence in year two
“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. But, you know, as I mentioned earlier, I think it was foundational to the company Atlassian became.”
Jay Simons Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 22:48 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
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Farquhar: Atlassian grew to 250,000 customers and 11,000 employees
“And 22 years later, 250,000 customers, 11,000 staff.”
Scott Farquhar Oct 9, 2023 ▶ 0:57 Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Rich Wong was Atlassian's first outside board member and lead investor
“Rich also sits on the boards of the likes of Checker, Osmo, Rovio, and Atlassian, where, fun fact, he was the first outside board member and lead investor.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2017 ▶ 0:50 20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
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