Simons: Atlassian flew all ten-year employees to New York for IPO
Jay Simons · Jay Simons, President @ Atlassian - The Inside Story Through IPO · Jul 7, 2017 · at 4:17
Atlassian President Jay Simons discusses company culture and employee liquidity when explaining the reasons why Atlassian went public.
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“In fact, we took all of the ten-year Employees to New York to celebrate the IPO, and there was a big gaggle of them, and so there's a bunch of people that have worked really hard along that journey.”
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