Mike Cannon-Brookes
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Feb 8, 2021
Cannon-Brookes sold his first startup to competitor Blink for hundreds of thousands
“Anyway, Blink raised thirty-five million dollars. And we were sitting in Sydney and we were just like, holy shit, we're gonna get smoked. There's no way. So we called up the two or three guys that had raised a big bunch of money and said, look, we got a couple…”
Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021
Cannon-Brookes argues startup leaders must scale their capabilities faster than company growth
“If our business is going to double every two years, as individuals and as leaders, we can only justify our positions if we are more than doubling our capabilities every two years. Because logically, otherwise, you end up with a kind of constraint at the top, r…”
Feb 8, 2021
Cannon-Brookes' father passed on investing in Atlassian after an early startup underperformed
“The worst, or the funniest part about that story, my dad would hate me saying this, is he, I think my dad put in five or 10 grand, and you know, barely got his money back kind of thing, and decided that maybe I wasn't worth backing, and so he never invested in…”
Feb 8, 2021
Cannon-Brookes acquired his first computer at age eight using frequent flyer points
“So I was flying from Sydney to London four times a year back and forth and racking up lots of frequent fly points as a seven year old, eight year old, nine year old. And my parents gave me the catalog one, you know, Christmas or end of year and said, Hey, you …”
Feb 8, 2021 positive
Cannon-Brookes says demonstrating direct product value eliminates the need for sales reps
“If you can demonstrate value to someone
We had to figure out how to sell things online.
And once we had done that and saw the effect of that patience, all we did is kind of continue to double down on that model every year, right?
We would hire more engineers i…”
Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021
Atlassian's first shareholder agreement designated rock-paper-scissors to resolve founder disputes
“And we put in Rochambeau or rock, paper, scissors into our shareholders agreement. And so it's changed now. We're a public company. We can't solve problems like that anymore. But you know, for the first few years, if we disagreed it would have ended up at rock…”
Feb 8, 2021 positive
Cannon-Brookes explains how enterprise software virality spreads through cross-functional team members
“We want to get one team to solve one problem with our application brilliantly, because most people in companies don't work on one team. They actually work on three or four different teams and different projects, different things.”