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For over a decade, more than half of Atlassian's active users have been in non-technical roles such as finance, HR, sales, and marketing.
Atlassian's Teamwork Graph, started around 2019, contains over 100 billion objects and connections and is currently growing at a rate of over 50% quarter-on-quarter.
Atlassian reported on a recent earnings call that it has surpassed 3.5 million monthly active users for its AI features.
Atlassian uses its DX product internally to track the cost, time spent, and ROI of various AI coding tools, including Rovo Dev, Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
Both Mike Cannon-Brooks of Atlassian and Matt Garman of AWS predict their respective companies will employ more developers in five years than they do today.
Atlassian's core business strategy is to prioritize long-term, sustainable growth ("grow longer") over maximizing short-term growth rates ("grow faster").
In its most recent quarter, Atlassian's total revenue grew 21%, its cloud business revenue grew 26%, and its Revenue Performance Obligations (RPO) grew 40%.
Mike Cannon-Brooks believes AI agents will automate specific parts of business process flowcharts rather than eliminating entire processes at once.
Mike Cannon-Brooks believes the primary career risk from AI is not being replaced by AI itself, but by a person who is more skilled at using AI.
Atlassian has developed features that allow users to assign work within its platform to AI agents, including its own Rovo agents as well as agents from platforms like Salesforce, Google Agent Space, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
Atlassian's Teamwork Graph is built by tracking billions of links within its products to external applications such as Google Docs, Figma, GitHub, and Salesforce.
Atlassian's Rovo product is positioned as an enterprise search engine built on its Teamwork Graph, which the company believes is one of the largest in the world.