Atlassian

Atlassian Corporation Plc

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: TEAM
Industry	Software
Founded	Sydney, Australia 2002; 15 years ago (2002)
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Key people	Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar (Co-Founders & CEOs)
Products	Jira Confluence HipChat Bitbucket Bamboo FishEye Crucible Clover Trello SourceTree Crowd StatusPage
Revenue	$457 million (June 2016)
Number of employees	1,760 (June 2016)
Website	Atlassian

Atlassian /ətˈlæsiən/ is an enterprise software company that develops products for software developers, project managers, and content management. It is best known for its issue tracking application, Jira, and its team collaboration and product, Confluence. Atlassian serves over 60,000 customers.

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar founded Atlassian in 2002. The pair met while studying at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. They bootstrapped the company for several years, financing the startup with a $10,000 credit card debt. The name derives from the Titan Atlas (/ˈætləs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας) from Greek mythology who had been punished to hold up the Heavens after the Greek gods had overthrown the Titans. The logo reflects this through the blue X-shaped figure holding up what is shown to be the bottom of the sky.

Atlassian released its flagship product, Jira – a project and issue tracker, in 2002. In 2004, it released Confluence, a team collaboration platform that lets users work together on projects, co-create content, and share documents and other media assets. In 2006, Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurs of the Year for Australia.