This is Jeffrey Walker.  President of Atlassian, an incredibly cool and successful company. Hacker artist and musician. And also Cancer Dude.  His words, not mine.  He wrote them two years ago: “In preparation for this upcoming surgery, I’ll be working out every single day. I’ll...

Getting in touch with my Inner Jazz ` Vinnie Mirchandani, fellow Enterprise Irregular was gracious to invite me to guest blog reflecting on Atlassian hitting a new milestone: $100 million in all-time sales since inception. It’s not about the milestone, as reaching 14,706 customers as of today ...

Yesterday at the 15th Annual Stanford University Accel Symposium, I heard an energizing talk with Chris Hughes, Facebook, and Architect of Obama’s Digital Campaign Strategies, and Matthew Barzun, National Finance Team for Obama and Former Chief Strategy Officer, CNET Networks, Inc. on “Techn...

Atlassian is the Enterprise 2.0 sector’s Slumdog Millionaire. It’s an inspiring rags to riches story of two young college graduates who set out to earn at least a “graduate salary” (approximately $30K/yr USD) by creating a business, rather than taking a corporate job like the...

It's hard to believe that only seven years after Atlassian was founded, we'll shortly hit $100 million in all time sales. It's been quite a ride. * The software had to sell itself with no $$$ for a sales team * To sell itself it had to be low price * To make money we'd have to se...

We were interviewing tech lead candidates last week, and on a whim I decided to print out the Scientology “Whole Track� Security Check as an amusing prop. The check is a list of questions that are supposed to encompass all your past lives, and includes such gems as: Did you come to Earth for evi...

At work, it seems we run our public forums with the default "bad words" filter enabled. Where the list of bad words is stored or where it comes from I don't know, but some of the things it chooses to censor can be a little surprising. What I wrote: Seraph is pretty customiseable though: it's possibl...

Last week I listened to a great podcast titled Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series at Stanford. If you haven't heard about the series, I highly recommend to check it out. They have great speakers on various topics mostly around entrepreneur...

From the home office in Truth or Consequences, NM… #1: Love this post by Atlassian’s @barconati Connectbeam Connects | Confluence Customers Beam http://bit.ly/5VhY >> why E2.0 integrati … #2: Noticing that my tweets that hit 140 characters are having text cut off well before ...

I enjoyed meeting some Atlassian folk at the last Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, CO, which is about to happen again in March, 2009. You‘ll enjoy this video about core values, which can translate to many areas of life. Atlassian also have some cool underground advertising. They contribute...