Mike Cannon-Brookes

About Mike Cannon-Brookes

Birth Year: 1979
Birth Place: Sydney, Australia, Australia
Residence: Centennial Park, Sydney
Education: Cranbrook School
Alma mater: University of New South Wales
Known for: Co-founder and co-CEO, Atlassian (with Scott Farquhar)
Board member of: Atlassian
Spouse(s): Annie Todd
Parent(s): Mike and Helen Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes Net Worth

Mike Cannon-Brookes was born on 1979 in Sydney, Australia, Australia. Cannon-Brookes is cofounder of collaboration software firm Atlassian, based in Sydney, Australia. He and co-CEO Scott Farquhar started the company soon after graduating from college, funding it with credit cards. Atlassian, which has no sales team, boasts NASA, Tesla and SpaceX as customers. In 2017 Cannon-Brookes started working with Elon Musk to bring Musk's battery technology to southern Australia, which was suffering a power crisis.
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💰Mike Cannon-Brookes Net worth: $10.2 Billion

2015 $1.1 Billion
2016 $2.2 Billion
2017 $2.1 Billion
2018 $4.04 Billion

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Famous Quotes:

If you watch your [stock price] every day, it's like going to the casino. If you play roulette, your money is going to go up heaps and down heaps. What's the point of that? Let's focus on what the company is like in five years.

Biography/Timeline

1979

Mike Cannon-Brookes was born in November 1979, the son of a global banking executive, also named Mike, and his wife, Helen. He was educated at Cranbrook School in Sydney, and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a bachelor's degree in information systems on a UNSW Co-op Scholarship.

2004

With Scott Farquhar, Cannon-Brookes is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were recognised as the Australian IT Professional of the Year award in 2004, and Australian 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year. Cannon-Brookes was also honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2009 and is a member of The Forum of Young Global Leaders.

2007

Alongside his Business partner, Farquhar, Cannon-Brookes debuted on the 2007 BRW Young Rich list of the richest Australians aged under 40; and on the BRW Rich 200 in 2013 with an estimated net worth of A$250 million. In 2016, his net worth was estimated by Forbes on the list of Australia's 50 richest people as US$1.69 bn; by BRW Rich 200 as A$2.00 bn; and by the Sunday Times Rich List as GB£906 million.