Mike Cannon-Brookes
Michael Cannon-Brookes is an Australian billionaire, the co-founder and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian.
- Mike Cannon-Brookes is cofounder of collaboration software firm Atlassian, based in Sydney.
- He and co-CEO Scott Farquhar started the company soon after graduating from college, funding it with credit cards.
- Atlassian, which has no sales team, boasts NASA, Tesla and SpaceX as customers.
- In 2017 Cannon-Brookes started working with Elon Musk to bring Musk’s battery technology to southern Australia, which was suffering a power crisis.
- Cannon-Brookes has been a vocal advocate for reducing Australia’s reliance on fossil fuels, in favor of renewable energy sources.
