Scott Farquhar

Scott Farquhar is the cofounder and co-CEO of Atlassian. Additionally, Farquhar is a director at the Tech Council of Australia, a principal and cofounder of Skip Capital, a cofounder of Pledge 1%, and an investor and advisor with Blackbird Ventures and SafetyCulture. From 2016 to 2018, he was a director at Innovation and Science Australia, and from 2013 to 2014, he served as a director at RedBalloon. From 2010 to 2016, he spent six years as an investor and mentor at Startmate.

In 2006, Farquhar was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Australian Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. In 2016, he was awarded Australian Financial Review's Australian Business Person of the Year. In 2017, Forbes named him on their Global Game Changers list. His net worth is estimated at $17 billion, and he lives in Sydney, Australia.

Atlassian founder Scott Farquhar talks to Lateline about nurturing technology (2015)

Scott Farquhar founded the software company Atlassian in 2002 with his college friend Mike Cannon-Brookes. The two met in the same scholarship course at the University of New South Wales in 1998 at the age of 18. In 2001, they registered the company name Atlassian, inspired by the Greek titan. In 2002, the two launched the company with the introduction of Jira 1.0. At the time of founding Atlassian, Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes did not know what kind of company it would be but instead focused on creating a work environment where they could be who they authentically were and did not have to conform.

Today, Atlassian is a multibillion-dollar, global, publicly traded software company that offers team collaboration and productivity software.

Scott Farquhar earned his Bachelor of Science (Business Information Technology) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2002. He graduated from James Ruse High School in 1997.