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Re:Atlassian files for IPO by walterbell on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:00PM (#10534145)
Atlassian had financing rounds which provided employees with liquidity, http://fortune.com/2014/04/10/atlassian-the-3-3-billion-soft...

"The $150 million it recently raised isn’t going into its bank account — instead, its new investors are buying shares from past and present employees in an effort to offer workers some liquidity and retain talent ... 'the Accel Partners round was mostly about founders, and this [T. Rowe Price] one is about employees. Now neither of the founders are selling anything. So this is a little different. We’ve been profitable for 10 years, so we don’t need the cash, we have a lot of cash in the bank. It’s more a case of wanting to get a partner [that knows about public markets] on board..'"

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