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How Atlassian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes plans to shake up the F1 world

Mike Cannon-Brookes has raised eyebrows with his entry into the world of Formula 1,but he says it doesn’t undermine his credentials as an advocate for clean energy.

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Atlassian executive Sonia Parandekar at the firm’s head office in Sydney. Her travel program epitomises the growing links between Australia and south India.

Meet Sonia:The fly-in,fly-out tech exec who travels to Sydney from Asia’s Silicon Valley

Our commercial and cultural links with India’s “dynamic south” are on the up.

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Bill McDermott,chief executive officer of ServiceNow,was visiting Australia.
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AI ‘the biggest opportunity of our lifetime’,says tech veteran

AI “second movers” and deniers are set to lose,according to celebrity tech executive Bill McDermott.

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Sitemate CEO Hartley Pike is a former field engineer with Lendlease who was buried in paperwork before deciding to start a software company that would fix that problem.

Software start-up likened to Atlassian defies funding slump,raising $27.5 million

Australian start-up funding continues to tank,but not for this company,which wants to emulate the success of local tech billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar.

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Mike Cannon Brookes at Director conference at AICD Climate Governance Forum,at Sydney Hilton Hotel on Aug 11,2023. Photo:Flavio Brancaleone/ AFR

The hundreds of millions in tax incentives for Australian start-ups that went south

The R&D tax offset has served as a life raft for some of Australia’s most prominent technology start-ups,though in some cases it wasn’t enough.

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The Elaine mansion at Point Piper has sold for about $130 million.

Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar sells Point Piper’s Elaine estate for about $130m

The former Atlassian co-chief executive has again clocked up one of the highest house price sales in the country.

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Gina Creegan,Global Head of Workplace Experience,Atlassian and Dom Price,Work Futurist,Atlassian.

Is Atlassian’s year-long experiment the future of work?

Australia’s largest technology company’s new workspace has just 12 desks in total and barely any meeting rooms. But its workers love it.

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Scott Farquhar,co-CEO and co-founder of Atlassian,will step down in August.

Scott Farquhar to step down as Atlassian co-CEO

After co-founding the software company more than two decades ago,Farquhar will step down to focus on family and philanthropy.

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Mike Cannon-Brookes.

AGL and Cannon-Brookes want to make solar panels at former coal power station

AGL will partner with a start-up backed by its biggest shareholder,Mike Cannon-Brookes,to assess building a first-of-its-kind solar panel factory in the NSW Upper Hunter region.

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John Singleton at The Bonython in February.

Ad legend John Singleton sells former Paddington headquarters for $30m

John Singleton has sold his former head office in Sydney’s trendy Paddington to Annie Cannon-Brookes,the estranged wife of Mike Cannon-Brookes,the billionaire co-founder of tech giant Atlassian.

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