The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes

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Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian.

Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to happen. As you’ll hear Mike say, all of Atlassian’s products are actually different expressions of a single core platform, which really shapes how Atlassian itself is structured and how those products are built.

All of this means Atlassian is also right in the middle of the way AI is changing how all these companies work — AI tools might be able to look at all the different tools and systems you have and just read them for you, making a big migration to Atlassian’s platform less enticing. Or, if you buy the idea of the...

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