Two Australian mates who started a company because they 'didn't want to get real jobs' have made a newly released list of the richest people in the world.
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, both 41, are the only Australians to make the list, sitting at 65 and 66 in the top 100 of Bloomberg's billionaires index, which was released on Monday.
The pair have an estimated net wealth of $23.7billion each.
The profile of the Sydney-based pair has skyrocketed in recent years after they snapped up two of Australia's most expensive houses so they could be neighbours, helped pioneer huge green energy projects and even bought NBA team Utah Jazz.
Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar (pictured with his wife Kim) is number 65 on the Bloomberg billionaires list with an estimated fortune of $23.7billion
Co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes (pictured with wife Annie Todd) is right there with Farquhar at 66 on the rich list and has bought a minority stake in the Utah Jazz NBA team
The duo have been running their software firm Atlassian for nearly two decades but a tweet from Cannon-Brookes in 2017 - two years after their firm went public and made them a fortune - thrust him into the spotlight.
The Aussie entrepreneur tweeted to Elon Musk - who topped the new Bloomberg list with a $222billion fortune - about a green energy project for Australia.
The exchange would be the foundation for getting the world's biggest rechargeable battery built in South Australia that year.
After several huge blackouts in the state, Musk boasted he could solve SA's power woes in under 100 days and Cannon-Brookes talked him into a bet that the project would be free if he failed.
The project was a huge success and thanks to an expansion is still the world's largest lithium-ion battery - sparking similar projects across the world.
Since then both Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar have kept up with investing in green energy, including the Sun Cable project which aims to be the largest solar farm in the world based in WA.
But the wild success of their business has also afforded them time for other personal passions.
Namely basketball, with Cannon-Brookes becoming the first Australian to own an NBA basketball team after buying a minority stake in the Utah Jazz.
The Sydneysider bought into the team in a deal with the Miller family, who have owned it for 35 years, along with two other tech company owners in a deal reported to be worth $2billion in December 2020.
'I am super excited and stoked to become part of the ownership group for the Utah Jazz with two awesome friends,' Cannon-Brookes said at the time.
When his friend Ryan Smith, founder of Qualtrics, called him and said he was buying into the Jazz and he could get in on the deal, Cannon-Brookes revealed he jumped at the chance.
'I said 'f*** yeah' followed by 'I have to check with my wife'...
