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Markets2026-06-02 · source-backed
$1.1B cloud revenue, up 29%, stock up 29% on the report (CNBC). Their argument is that AI creates more work and more seats, not fewer. I don't think that's universally true, but it's the strongest data point against the "AI kills seats" thesis, and it deserves to be in the conversation.
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1,600 jobs cut (10%), CTO exits, stock down 74% over 12 months. Two AI-focused execs replace the CTO. Even with cloud revenue up 25%+ and 600+ customers at $1M+ ARR, collaboration software is existential when AI compresses project teams. CNBC
The Q4 FY2026 8-K reports $1,766M revenue up 28% and subscription ARR of $6,606M up 23%, but the builder-relevant number is a million MAUs on the agent-facing surface with a 3x increase in automations. Atlassian quantified zero revenue or margin contribution from it. Meanwhile...
It went into its August 6 report as one of the most doubted names in enterprise software on a simple bear case: agents write the code, so you need fewer Jira seats. It printed $1.77B in quarterly revenue up 28%, subscription ARR of $6.6B, RPO up 44% to $4.8B, and GAAP operatin...
PromptArmor went public August 5 (248 points on HN) after Atlassian went silent. Rovo's URL-retrieval tool has no protection against URLs the agent itself generates, so indirect prompt injection reaches anything behind its connectors. Disabling web search doesn't help: it remo...
Against the seat-compression thesis, Atlassian's Q2 FY2026 letter reports paid-seat expansion staying stable as customers adopt its AI platform, and Figma shows stronger-than-expected org-wide seat expansion driven by AI adoption (Atlassian 8-K). The split worth internalizing:...
Canva reported Q2 2026 revenue of $921.9M, up 25.2%. Then it cut full-year growth guidance from 30% to 20%. CEO Melanie Perkins attributed the cut to routing too much AI traffic through expensive third-party frontier models while Canva's own models weren't ready. The expected...
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