Aussie brothers strike it rich after US firm snaps up ‘bedroom startup’ for $2bn – Sydney Morning Herald

Mr Cameron said A Cloud Guru tapped into three mega trends the rise of online education, the cloud and the growing number of citizen developers – ordinary people retraining to becoming software engineers.
Its a crystallisation of a thesis weve had all along that you can build big global businesses out of Australia and by having access to venture markets in Australia it gives them the fuel they need to grow faster, he said. Its a big deal obviously for us but also for the ecosystem more generally.
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