Mike Cannon-Brookes is cofounder of collaboration software firm Atlassian, based in Sydney. Atlassian, which has no sales team, boasts NASA, Tesla and SpaceX as customers. He and co-CEO Scott Farquhar started the company soon after graduating from college, funding it with credit cards. Cannon-Brookes and fellow billionaire Andrew Forrest have together invested $152 million for the construction of an undersea solar power cable link to Singapore. In 2022, Cannon-Brookes and Canadian asset manager Brookfield Asset Management made an unsolicited $8 billion bid to acquire AGL Energy. The company rejected the offer.
