Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian, the $50BN software giant behind products like Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Since founding the company in 2002, he has scaled it to over 300,000 customers globally, generating more than $5BN in annual revenue. Atlassian now employs over 10,000 people across 13 countries and is one of the most successful bootstrapped-to-IPO stories in tech history. Mike is also a leading climate investor and co-owner of several major sports teams. ---------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 0:00 Intro 0:45 Lessons from 20 years as co-CEOs with Scott Farquhar 6:40 Becoming solo CEO & making bold AI-era moves 14:30 Are tech valuations insane? Mike’s investor reality check 18:20 Why design, not data, will define the AI era 26:30 The future of engineers in an AI world 46:55 How Atlassian survives by protecting creativity 51:45 Fighting the “entropy of ambition” 57:52 Quick-Fire Round -----------------------------...