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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO, Atlassian.\n\nMike Cannon-Brookes co-founded Atlassian in Sydney in 2002 with Scott Farquhar, a classmate from the University of New South Wales, and the two bootstrapped it on credit card debt. He is its CEO, and has led it alone since Farquhar stepped down as co-CEO in August 2024.\n\n## What Mike builds\n\n- [Trello](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trello.md), graded C, 61.1/100, in Project \u0026 task management. Trello is Atlassian's hosted board product for lists and cards of work. Agents reach it through a REST API at api.trello.com with a public OpenAPI spec, using an API key and user token or OAuth 2.0. Co-founder and CEO, Atlassian, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Scott Farquhar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-farquhar/), Co-founder and board member, Atlassian\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Mike Cannon-Brookes?\n\nMike Cannon-Brookes co-founded Atlassian in Sydney in 2002 with Scott Farquhar, a classmate from the University of New South Wales, and the two bootstrapped it on credit card debt. He is its CEO, and has led it alone since Farquhar stepped down as co-CEO in August 2024.\n\n### What does Atlassian (Trello, Inc.) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Trello from Atlassian (Trello, Inc.). Trello is Atlassian's hosted board product for lists and cards of work. Agents reach it through a REST API at api.trello.com with a public OpenAPI spec, using an API key and user token or OAuth 2.0.\n\n### How are Mike's tools graded?\n\nTrello is graded C, 61.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://trello.com/\n- https://www.atlassian.com/company/people\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlassian\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trello\n- https://www.atlassian.com/company\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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