Mike Cannon-Brookes is an Australian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Atlassian and serves as its sole CEO following the departure of his co-CEO. Mike Cannon-Brookes's Twitter Score is 46 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #20,186 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Mike Cannon-Brookes co-founded Atlassian, the enterprise software company behind products such as Jira and Confluence, and became its sole chief executive after Scott Farquhar stepped down as co-CEO effective August 31. In March 2026, Atlassian announced layoffs of roughly 1,600 employees, around 10% of its workforce, as the company pivoted toward artificial intelligence and enterprise sales.
Mike Cannon-Brookes founded Grok Ventures as a family office and later established Boundless Earth as a dedicated climate fund. He has pledged to donate and invest $1.5 billion on climate projects by 2030. Mike Cannon-Brookes is also affiliated with SunCable, a renewable energy venture that aims to supply green power to Darwin and Singapore via a long-distance undersea cable. SunCable entered administration in January 2023 following disagreements between Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest, and Grok Ventures subsequently won control of the company in May 2023.
Mike Cannon-Brookes serves as chairman at Blackbird Ventures, an Australian venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage startups across Australia and New Zealand. Blackbird's portfolio includes VeVe, a crypto and NFT-relevant company, giving Mike Cannon-Brookes an indirect connection to the Web3 space. Mike Cannon-Brookes's account has accumulated 103,537 followers as of September 2026 across 17,716 posts. Mike Cannon-Brookes has been mentioned by 108 accounts a total of 313 times.
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