Scott Farquhar

Farquhar was born in December 1979.[3] He attended James Ruse Agricultural High School and Castle Hill Primary School[4][5] and graduated from the University of New South Wales, with a Bachelor of Science (BIT).[6][7]

With Cannon-Brookes, Farquhar is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company with more than 260,000 large and small organisations as customers – including some of the biggest names in media, manufacturing and technology[8] – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management and development products. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were recognised for their achievements as the Australian Consensus IT Professional of the Year award in 2004, and Australian 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year.[7] Farquhar has mentored through the Australian Businesswomen’s Network and gives guest lectures on entrepreneurship to MBA students and undergraduates.[1]

In 2018, Farquhar spoke out against the Australian Government’s renaming of the 457 visas, saying the move damages Australia's reputation as a place that people want to come to work.[9]

Farquhar is a significant investor in tech startups through a privately held investment fund, Skip Capital.[10][11] As of 2021, the fund had a stake in four Australian tech unicorns, including Canva and Airwallex; along with overseas firms, such as Talkdesk, a provider of cloud-based contact centre software based in San Francisco.[11][12]

He is married to Kim Jackson and they have three sons.[13][14] In 2017 Farquhar purchased from the Fairfax family its former ancestral Sydney harbourside home, Elaine, for approximately A$75 million. The Point Piper home set on 6,986 square metres (75,200 sq ft) had been in the ownership of the Fairfax family since 1891 and was vacant for nearly twenty years prior to its purchase by Farquhar.[15][16] In 2020 it was reported that Farquhar plans a partial knock-down of unsympathetic renovations to Elaine, and rebuild a A$30 million contemporary home.[17] In 2018 Cannon-Brookes bought the house next door, Fairwater, Australia's most expensive house at approximately A$100 million.[18] In April 2022 Farquhar saved a man's life in Las Vegas.[19]

Net worth

Alongside his business partner, Cannon-Brookes, Farquhar debuted on the 2007 BRW Young Rich list of the richest Australians aged 40 and under, and on the BRW Rich 200 in 2013 with an estimated net worth of A$250 million. In 2016, his net worth was estimated by Forbes on the list of Australia's 50 Richest people as US$1.75 billion;[20][21] by BRW Rich 200 as A$2.00 billion;[22] and by the Sunday Times Rich List as £906 million.[23] As of 2019, Farquhar was ranked fifth in the Forbes list of Australia's 50 Richest people with a net worth of US$6.40 billion.[24] He was ranked seventh on the Financial Review 2023 Rich List with a net worth of A$18.16 billion.[25]

Year	Financial Review Rich List		Forbes Australia's 50 Richest		Sunday Times Rich List
	Rank	Net worth (A$)	Rank	Net worth (US$)	Rank	Net worth (£)
2013[26][27]	190	$0.25 billion	n/a	not listed
2014[28][29]	35	$1.07 billion	n/a	not listed
2015[30][20]	42	$1.14 billion	25	$1.10 billion
2016[22][20][23]	18	$2.00 billion	15	$1.75 billion		£906 million
2017[31][32]	18	$2.51 billion	10	$3.40 billion
2018[33]	11	$5.16 billion	5
2019[34][24]	5	$9.75 billion	5	$6.40 billion
2020[35]	6	$16.69 billion
2021[36][37]	5	$20.00 billion		$13.70 billion
2022	4	$26.40 billion
2023[25]	7	$18.16 billion

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