What role did Atlassian play in Australian tech?

“As of March, Atlassian has a market cap of $75 billion and employs over 6,000 people, making it an undisputed giant of Australia's growing tech sector.”

“I think the thing that really got the Sydney startup scene on the map was the success of Atlassian, and then a couple of years down the track, Canva as well. So from an international perspective, whenever I talk to investors in the US, they're always interested in previous employees from Atlassian and Canva. Are they starting startups? What are Blackbird and Airtree investing in? Because they were the first money into Canva's round. So I mean, from a local and international perspective, I'd say the success of Atlassian and Canva were definitely a catalyst for where the Australian startup system is now.”

“Uh, I think I heard that, you know, I don't know the, the specifics about this, but the Australian government And I don't know if you know the specifics about this, you know, with the ability for early employees to take shares, I think that was a problem that we had when Atlassian was formed. And I'm imagining that that wasn't the case in the US because you've got these companies like Fairchild that, you know, minted all these millionaires. Is Atlassian doing the same? Or is the equity all tied up in, you know, the main founders of the company and not the employees?”