Atlassian

Atlassian is an Australian software company founded in 2002 by university friends Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar in Sydney, who bootstrapped it with $10,000 in credit card debt after building Jira, a bug-tracking tool, to solve their own frustrations with existing software.

It quickly expanded with products like Confluence for team collaboration, growing into a global leader in project management, DevOps, and productivity tools including Trello, Bitbucket, and Jira Service Management, serving over 300,000 customers without a traditional sales team through a self-serve model.

Now publicly traded on NASDAQ as TEAM with billions in revenue, co-CEOs Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar emphasize a unique culture of innovation, openness, and work-life balance from its headquarters in Sydney.