Scott Farquhar's net worth was A$21.42 billion in the Financial Review Rich List of May 2025, which ranked him fourth in Australia. Forbes put his wealth at $15.5 billion in December 2024.
Almost all of it comes from his shares in Atlassian, the software company he co-founded in Sydney in 2002 with Mike Cannon-Brookes. The two started with about A$10,000 of credit-card debt and no outside funding.
Atlassian took $60 million from Accel Partners in July 2010 and listed on the Nasdaq on 10 December 2015. Farquhar was co-CEO through that period. On 26 April 2024 he announced he would resign as co-CEO at the end of August 2024.
He stayed on the Atlassian board as a special adviser. Because his fortune is tied to Atlassian shares, it moves with the share price.