2014 has been a banner year for Atlassian. We introduced Jira Portfolio and Atlassian Enterprise, held our biggest and brightest Summit yet, and opened new offices in Manila and Austin, Texas. There’s another milestone that hasn’t been talked about as much as these others, but is incredibly meaningful for all Atlassians, especially Mike and myself: we now have more than 40,000 organizations as customers.
Small company, big goals
Back when we had less than 500 customers, Mike and I wondered what it would be like to someday have more than 50,000 Atlassian customers. That kind of number was almost unheard of in the enterprise software world. Still, you seldom do big things if you don’t set big goals. So set that goal we did.
Celebrating in style
If you’ve been a customer for long, you know that a success of any kind can mean only one thing for us: t-shirts. We wanted to celebrate this moment with our staff in true Atlassian style, and so t-shirts it was!
(Yep, we even have an outpost in Louisville.)
Mike and Jay also sat down to share some thoughts on what 40,000 customers means for us.
As you can see, the entire staff is pretty excited about this milestone. The trust that you have placed in us and our products is at once gratifying, humbling, and inspiring. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!
The Atlassian customer base is growing faster than ever, thanks in a large part to Hipchat. It’s free (not just free trial–free), so I encourage you check it out and see if it changes the way you work as much as it has changed ours.
Here’s to our continued success together,
– Scott