Mike Cannon-Brookes
$10756.1B
Sydney, , Australia
Biography
Mike Cannon-Brookes is cofounder of collaboration software firm Atlassian, based in Sydney. Atlassian, which has no sales team, boasts NASA, Tesla and SpaceX as customers.
He and co-CEO Scott Farquhar started the company soon after graduating from college, funding it with credit cards.
Cannon-Brookes and fellow billionaire Andrew Forrest have together invested $152 million for the construction of an undersea solar power cable link to Singapore.
In 2022, Cannon-Brookes and Canadian asset manager Brookfield Asset Management made an unsolicited $8 billion bid to acquire AGL Energy. The company rejected the offer.
Financial Assets
Atlassian Corp
NASDAQ: TEAM-USShares: 55,810,000
Genex Power
ASX: GNX-AUShares: 35,000,000
Marley Spoon
ASX: MMM-AUShares: 1,500,000
Redbubble
ASX: RBL-AUShares: 4,400,000
Tyro Payments
ASX: TYR-AUShares: 66,400,000