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Completely different business model. Atlassian and Trello are much more similar. Google was selling ads, not software.

• user5994461 10y ago
  Trello and Google are SaaS, they sell a service, not software. They made it so that one could register easily and use the service quickly, without special training or any setup. That's how you grab tons of free users. Atlassian is mostly shrink-wrap entreprisey software. They software with expensive licenses that also require extensive installation and maintenance by the client. They need a sale force.
  • bosie 10y ago
    > They software with expensive licenses that also require extensive installation and maintenance by the client. They also host the software. Do you know if the majority of their revenue comes from the self-hosted customers?
  • beat 10y ago
    That "no training or setup, tons of free users" model? You can't sell into the enterprise like that. And Trello can be very useful in the enterprise - into an environment that doesn't really think twice about paying $1000/year/user. Enterprise is a far more lucrative market than freemium. And if you need to keep doubling your revenue on a regular basis, that's how you get it. Don't let the SaaS thing fool you about sales. Salesforce is SaaS too, but they're a lot more like Atlassian than Google, business-wise.