Tag: Mike Cannon-Brookes

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Cannon-Brookes’ off-grid power play

Atlassian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and his wife Annie are spending $12.5 million on a new venture to spearhead the super-fast roll-out of off-grid solar and battery combinations to help...

Tech investment target is ‘insulting’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Coalition’s newfound focus on a technology investment target in lieu of an emissions target to address climate change is “insulting” and an attempt to find a “silver bullet”,...

MC-B on tech talent shortfalls

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Atlassian co-founder and co-chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes has told a senate committee investigating the future of work and workers that Australia must get behind the local industry and called...

Collaboration is key: Sinodinos

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Arthur Sinodinos intends making ‘collaboration’ the hallmark of his tenure in the Industry portfolio, and has recommitted the Turnbull Government to putting science and innovation at the centre of...

Musk offer is no way to govern

Posted on   |  by James Riley
You can’t fault the billionaire Australian software entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes’ motivation for pressing for a 100MW battery storage facility to be set up in South Australia to help it through...

MC-B warning on 457 visa debate

Posted on   |  by James Riley
We live in strange times. Debates about things that matter get so obscured by political weirdness that it takes the intervention of an industry giant to point out the...

Matt Barrie on the Aussie scene

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Pound for pound the Australian tech sector is producing better startup operators than its counterpart ecosystem in Silicon Valley, according to Freelancer.com’s acerbic CEO Matt Barrie. But that doesn’t...

Startups hostage to rent seekers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Innovation Nation is a great slogan – but it rings hollow if startups and entrepreneurs don’t have anywhere to camp, which is increasingly the case in Sydney. It’s a...

Atlassian shrugs off market woes

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Australia’s software darling Atlassian has been caught up in the New Year’s stock rout, losing more than 20 per cent of its value over the past two days. The...

Miners tell a sad Atlassian story

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When news emerged late last month that Australia’s greatest software success story, Atlassian, planned to list on the New York Stock Exchange there was some gnashing of the teeth...