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Atlassian will work to create 'Australia's Silicon Valley' in a Sydney tech hub
- Eridrus 8y ago> “Fifteen years ago there was no technology precinct or technology industry in Australia,” said Farquhar, “As computer science graduates the best we could hope for was working at a bank or a consultancy organisation… and Mike and I weren’t up for that. So with a healthy dose of naivety we started out on our own." I was back in Sydney recently, talking to people who work in tech there, it seems that besides the addition of Google & Atlassian, not a whole lot has changed. NICTA/Data61 is still around, which is good, and there are a few startups now and we even have our own HFT firms! But in general it didn't seem like a thriving tech scene I would want to move back to. Living in NYC, the comparison to Roosevelt Island cracked me up a bit, since it has a Cornell campus and basically nothing else.