Farquhar says raising Silicon Valley capital would have made Atlassian less disruptive
Scott Farquhar · Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar · Feb 8, 2021 · at 30:28
Scott Farquhar, co-founder of Atlassian, explains how bootstrapping in Australia rather than taking Silicon Valley venture capital forced their unique low-touch sales model.
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“I really think if we had grown up in Silicon Valley and had venture capital around us, that we would have built a very different company that wouldn't have been as disruptive as ours has been because we didn't have venture capital.”
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