Net Worth: $1.5 Billion

About Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes is a technology entrepreneur, and industrialist with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. currently he is the 25th richest australian in Australia along with co-founder Scott Farquhar. The two both co-founded Atlassian with a $10,000 line of credit on their credit card. Atlassian announced plans to go public on the market and they reported that the company has made $320 Million in sales for 2015. The company develops online business software tools that help companies manage projects and work flow for their development and IT teams. Forbes estimates that Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes each own a third of Atlassian. according to Forbes Cannon-Brookes reportedly has a Tesla, which he dubbed the iPhone of the automobile industry. For Atlassian’s revenue model in the sales department Atlassian does not have a traditional sales team. Instead, it lists all prices, information about products, documentation, support requests, and training materials on its website. The company does not offer discounts, with the exception of open source projects, academic and charity organizations. Most of the company’s products are available as hosted or installed versions, starting at $10 for 10 licenses meaning that pricing does not scale up linearly. Mike Cannon-Brookes and his co-founding partner are looking to further expand the company’s operations all over the world to grow and expand on revenue model’s including employment growth in the near future going public. Some of the products that the company offers are JIRA, Crowd, Confluence Team Calendars, Confluence SharePoint Connector, Confluence Questions, JIRA Agile (previously GreenHopper), and JIRA Capture (previously Bonfire). He is currently the #1638 richest person in the world.