Jay Simons
General Partner, BOND. On 3 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jay Simons served for 12 years at Atlassian, including nine years as President, scaling the company through its 2015 IPO. He is currently a General Partner at BOND, where he invests in growth-stage software and technology companies.
3shows
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39statements
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13supported
2contradicted
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36said about them ↓ Everything Jay Simons said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Simons: Atlassian drew inspiration from Microsoft's platform ecosystem strategy
“We drew a lot of inspiration from Microsoft, which I think is a textbook case here.”
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…”
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.”
Trello Sits Between Structured Jira and Unstructured Confluence
“If you think about what Trello is, you know, sort of like a digital whiteboard where you can kind of rearrange cards on it. And at one end of the opposite spectrum is, is Jira, a product of ours that is very structured. To manage collaborative project tracking…”
Trello Acquisition Exceeded Revenue Guidance Provided to Wall Street
“In terms of performance, like, we've exceeded our expectations. You know, we signaled to the street what we thought our revenue expectations was, and we're in front of that.”
Atlassian's Average Selling Price Was Around $1,800 Annually in 2008
“ASP, ASP at the time was probably like 1800 bucks annually.”
Atlassian Consistently Grew 35% to 50% Annually Over a Decade
“We have pretty consistently as a company grown somewhere between 35 and 50% over the last decade.”
Atlassian Required Product Experiments to Show Positive Yield Twice Before Rollout
“We had an agreement. We had a pact with product where if we, every experiment we would run twice, if we produce the same Positive yield twice. We had basically blood pack that said, okay, that gets written that way for everybody.”
Simons: Atlassian had 10 consecutive years of profitability before IPO
“Certainly, you know, we had 10 straight years of profitability. And 10 straight years of, you know, decent growth.”
Simons: Atlassian practiced quarterly earnings calls for two years before IPO
“For two years prior to going public, we practiced doing quarterly earnings calls, and we practiced.”
Simons: Atlassian never raised institutional balance sheet capital pre-IPO
“Atlassian had been bootstrapped from the very beginning, had never raised institutional capital on its balance sheet. So we did two secondary rows, second, two secondary rounds. You know, one with Excel in, ah, 2010, and one with T. Rowe Price. In 2013.”
Simons: Accel's $60M Atlassian secondary was its largest VC round at the time
“And the sixty million dollar round in 2010, even though it was secondary and didn't, ah, you know, didn't you know, hit the company's balance sheet. It was the single largest, ah, you know, venture capital round that Excel had done.”
Simons: Alex Risher built much of Atlassian's early operational maturity
“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.”
Atlassian Had Over $20 Million in Revenue When Jay Simons Joined
“So when I joined, we were just a little over twenty million in, in annual revenue.”
The other half of the tape: Jay Simons's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 35 times in 15 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 11Nathan Latka 6David Meyer 5Jason Lemkin 3Brian Halligan 3Nick Mehta 2David Darmanin 2Andy Cook 2
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Suter: Atlassian's non-quarterly, linear revenue model is an awesome strategy
“I think the revenue model that they went public with is awesome. Very linearity. You know, they don't depend on quarterly sales normal kind of like quarterly sales traction at all. So they focus, you know, four to five quarters out instead of next quarter.”
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20VC 19
Top Founders 11
the Official SaaStr Podcast 5
2025 6 mentions in 1 episode
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- Gamers contribute GPU To this SaaS Marketplace Raising $15m at $70m Valuation with $5m in Revenue
- Prediction: Freshbworks IPO Coming Next Month? Founders Thinking in 2018
- Bootstrapped Employee Performance SaaS hits $3.6m ARR, Up from $2.4m, Valued at $40m
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Twilio: The Inside Story with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co-Founder
- EP 558: 2 yr Old HotJar Passes $500k MRR Helping 10,000 Customers See What Website Visitors Are Doing with CEO David Darmanin
- EP 529: $10m Raised, Pre-Revenue, Notion.ai Adds AI to Email Messaging with Co-Founder Guy Suter
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
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| 20VCLEDGER | General Partner, BOND | 1 | 17 | 83% 5/6 | full record on 20VC → |
| SAASTRLEDGER | General Partner, BOND | 1 | 12 | 80% 4/5 | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |
| TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | General Partner, BOND | 1 | 10 | 67% 4/6 | full record on Top Founders → |