Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
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Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
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Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#2I can sorta see the value in Atlassian, with Jira being used what seems everywhere.
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#3They do seem to be the best in a very competitive market. There are loads of either commercial or open source issue trackers, wikis, combinations of both, etc. etc. How will they grow past that ? Acqusitions? Writing custom JIRA plugins that will make it more like an ERP ? Ideas?
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#4I can sorta see the value in Atlassian, with Jira being used what seems everywhere.
I agree, this actually seems pretty reasonable.
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#5Good! I enjoy their tools and think they really deserve that.
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#6They do seem to be the best in a very competitive market. There are loads of either commercial or open source issue trackers, wikis, combinations of both, etc. etc. How will they grow past that ? Acqusitions? Writing custom JIRA plugins that will make it more like an ERP ? Ideas?
> There are loads of either commercial or open source issue trackers, wikis, combinations of both, etc. etc
Yes, and they all suck. They go from a pain to use (Bugzilla) to a huge mountain of useless and worthless crap with a obscene price tag (Rational tools)
It seems to me they are in the right path
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#7Sold for more than Nest. At last something that makes sense!
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#8Really cool that you can reach that kind of valuation with a basket of products, rather than a single run-away network effect fueled win. I find it very inspirational that they do that well by building great software that people love.
also: They really make awesome products (we use BitBucket, HipChat and Confluence)
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#9I'm not surprised. We use Crucible at work and everyone loves it. Atlassian makes some great prodcuts.
Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
#10This is a company that was founded in 2001.
I still remember their CEO building his original audience on TheServerSide.com, back when Enterprise Java was the thing.
They took 13 years to get to this point, a solid 8-9 years longer than most enterprise SaaS companies are expected to take (by VCs). And yet, not a single VC I've asked if they wish they were in Atlassian has said no.
You can build huge companies on your own terms and you don't have to swallow the story that everybody tries to feed you. You do need to do one thing though (and only one thing): get traction and keep it growing.