Scott Farquhar is a tech entrepreneur worth $7bn (£5.3bn), but he almost joined a military academy instead.
The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-chief executive of software company Atlassian.The Australian entrepreneur was on track to join one of the country's top military institutions after he finished high school. But the letter from the Australian Defence Force Academy offering him a place got lost in the post.
"I remember crying myself to sleep one night because my friend had a computer and I wanted one too," he says. Their goals were simple: don't wear suits, and earn more than 48,500 Australian dollars a year. That was roughly the salary other graduates had been offered by big banks and accounting firms.
It was the end of what he describes as"hand-to-hand combat" to find customers. Now they were coming straight to Atlassian.Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar met at university
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