When Atlassian launched Rovo in October 2023, it entered an enterprise search market that already had a breakout player: Glean. Founded by former Google executives, Glean had raised hundreds of millions of dollars, pitched itself as the connective tissue across workplace apps, and quickly won customers by promising employees a single search bar for their corporate knowledge.
But Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes believes the startup’s lead has already evaporated.
“I would be shocked if [Rovo] is not seeing more usage than Glean by quite a long distance,” he said during a recent interview. It was a blunt statement from the Australian billionaire, who rarely shies from a fight when it comes to Atlassian’s role in collaboration software.
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