Regardless of our own personal opinions towards Atlassian, it should be more talked about in the startup ecosystem. Not only for there stock doing well (Up over 340% since January 2017), for the ownership the founders still have and much more.
Whenever Atlassian is mentioned on HN, at least 75% of the comments are complaints about the product - it’s crap, it’s slow, buggy, whatever.
But the company behind it has turned into a juggernaut.
Lesson being that - product isn’t nearly as important as distribution and sales strategy - be wary of asking HN for business advice (flashbacks of “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”