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Atlassian Fired 1,600 People. Most Developers Don't Even Know Who Atlassian Is, But They Use Their Products Every Day.
The company behind Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket laid off 5% of its workforce. Bryte digs into who Atlassian actually is, why they did it, and what it says about the tech industry.
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Let me tell you about a company that most people have never heard of, even though they use its products every single day.
Atlassian.
If you've ever worked in software, you know their products. You just might not know who made them.
“Here's the absurdity: developers complain about Jira every single day. They write memes about it. They fantasize about alternatives. But when you ask them to actually switch, they won't. Jira's moat isn't that it's good. It's that it's everywhere.”
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