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Revenue was $1.6 billion in 2020, up 33% from $1.2 billion for 2019. Growing at that rate at this point in your company's lifecycle is pretty extraordinary. So

Revenue was $1.6 billion in 2020, up 33% from $1.2 billion for 2019. Growing at that rate at this point in your company's lifecycle is pretty extraordinary. So not sure why you would consider them to be a cautionary tale. As for what has happened to them. They have been on an acquisition binge the last few years e.g. Trello, StatusPage, OpsGenie, Mindville etc. And as mentioned above they have been rewriting their UI in a new React framework called Atlaskit. I also used to think Atlassian was a pretty poorly run company but then you look into it and actually the opposite is true. Although they did let Github, Gitlab, Slack dominate them. Next few years will be interesting as Gitlab is moving very fast into their space.

ProAm 6y ago
Sales and Revenue do not always equate to quality and user experience. All these companies when they get to this size start to lean on M&A vs build it yourself. Look at the history of Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and you'll see the same pattern. Slack is the new Sharepoint, everyone uses it but no one really wants to and it doesn't really fit the bill but everyone else is doing it so companies adopt it.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Slack's value is in selling the idea of async chat to managers and making it mainstream. I don't feel as nauseous using it as Sharepoint, but it does seem to be buggy and crashy in places.
  - Rillen 6y ago
    For me slack is a very simple deal: Microsoft Teams Chat UI is garbage. It uses a lot of space, i can't just have a list of channels, no i need groups etc. It even doesn't matter to me if its slack or hipchat or matrix or whatever. I don't know why we migrated to slack. I don't get why Teams doesn't provide a lightweight chat typical UI. I would just switch to Teams. After all video calls are much better on Teams and more stable. But then Slack integrated Teams and Zoom. They clearly don't want to compete in this area and i also don't get why.
otabdeveloper4 6y ago
Gitlab is not in any way a Jira competitor. And yes, Atlassian did drop the ball. We'll see the fallout in five years, I don't see how they can save the company now.

ProAm 6y ago

Sales and Revenue do not always equate to quality and user experience. All these companies when they get to this size start to lean on M&A vs build it yourself. Look at the history of Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and you'll see the same pattern. Slack is the new Sharepoint, everyone uses it but no one really wants to and it doesn't really fit the bill but everyone else is doing it so companies adopt it.

quickthrower2 6y ago
Slack's value is in selling the idea of async chat to managers and making it mainstream. I don't feel as nauseous using it as Sharepoint, but it does seem to be buggy and crashy in places.
- Rillen 6y ago
  For me slack is a very simple deal: Microsoft Teams Chat UI is garbage. It uses a lot of space, i can't just have a list of channels, no i need groups etc. It even doesn't matter to me if its slack or hipchat or matrix or whatever. I don't know why we migrated to slack. I don't get why Teams doesn't provide a lightweight chat typical UI. I would just switch to Teams. After all video calls are much better on Teams and more stable. But then Slack integrated Teams and Zoom. They clearly don't want to compete in this area and i also don't get why.

otabdeveloper4 6y ago

Gitlab is not in any way a Jira competitor. And yes, Atlassian did drop the ball. We'll see the fallout in five years, I don't see how they can save the company now.