Mike Cannon-Brookes
Mike Cannon-Brookes is an Australian billionaire businessman who co-founded and serves as the chief executive officer of Atlassian, a collaboration software company. He co-founded Atlassian with Scott Farquhar in 2002, and the company is known for products such as Jira. He is also a technology investor and climate advocate, having pledged to donate and invest $1.5 billion in climate projects by 2030 through his private investment vehicle Grok Ventures.
“You can tell a lot about people when they get promoted as to whether they grow into the job or swell into it.”
Source→“They are often used for tasks that previously would have been too expensive to use even like a GPT-3 or GPT-4 level model for.”
Source→“I'm a big bear on the magic button thesis of AI that there'll be one button we press and it does it all for us.”
Source→“The teamwork graph's job is to infer ahead of your agent. Before your agent has asked a question, to infer the best possible answer to that. Think about it like Google's index of the web.”
Source→“Almost every single time, that is, if it's not Nemotron, which it's usually not, it is a Chinese model that they've trained, or added their own fine tuning, specialization on top of, and then they call it their own model.”
Source→“We're moving from a world of information asymmetry to imagination asymmetry”
Source→“You took someone's billion dollar model and tailored it... That's totally fine, but that's not really training your own model, I would say, right?”
Source→“I think there's a geopolitical issue around who has the sort of strategic control of the world. That is a different issue from, should we use a model that was trained in China.”
Source→“It's one of the best examples of A2A across multi craft teams.”
Source→“it goes off to Databricks or to Snowflake through the teamwork graph's data context”
Source→“We use some Mistral. We use a bunch of other open models in different parts.”
Source→“Both of them are deep Atlassian partners and we really value our partnership with them.”
Source→“If I'm using Codex and it does something for me... Codex creates a pull request, did Harry do that, or did Codex do that?”
Source→“I think it's like 40% of contributions or something like this is quite high nowadays come from China.”
Source→“Those type of companies are looking for large-scale, generated generic datasets to sell at scale to many other providers.”
Source→“The social graph of a company is valid today, and only today. Tomorrow, there will be different people in a company than there were today.”
Source→“If you produce, you'll get rewarded, right?... I named Atlassian. And honestly, two months ago, I felt like an idiot. It was still not, I thought he'd pull it off, but it wasn't there. And then obviously they nailed it. They got the growth and the stock jumped.”
Source→“Whenever I see the base getting overly monetized or harvest, if nothing else, it's a sign of stress in the organization because no one really, no founder wants to do that.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.