# Mike Cannon-Brookes (slim)

> 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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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.

## 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.

### 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.

### 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

These 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.