# Mike Cannon-Brookes

> Mike Cannon-Brookes is co-founder and CEO of Atlassian. Trello on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder and CEO, Atlassian.

Mike 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.

## What Mike builds

- [Trello](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trello.md), graded C, 61.1/100, in Project & 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.

## Works with

- [Scott Farquhar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-farquhar/), Co-founder and board member, Atlassian

## Questions

### Who is Mike Cannon-Brookes?

Mike 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.

### What does Atlassian (Trello, Inc.) make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Mike's tools graded?

Trello is graded C, 61.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://trello.com/
- https://www.atlassian.com/company/people
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlassian
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trello
- https://www.atlassian.com/company

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