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Atlassian's 35% One-Day Stock Pop Was the Market Retracting the Seat-Death Thesis, at $6.6B ARR and 44% RPO Growth
SaaStr's teardown published today points out that Atlassian went into its Aug 6 report as one of the most doubted names in enterprise software on a simple bear case: AI agents write the code, so you need fewer Jira seats. It printed $1.77B in quarterly revenue up 28%, subscription ARR of $6.6B, RPO up 44% to $4.8B, GAAP operating margin swinging from -2% to 12%, and the stock jumped roughly 35% in a day. Rovo passed 5 million monthly active users with over 80% of the Fortune 500 using it and assisted actions up 50% quarter over quarter, which is the counterexample to every seat-compression model currently being circulated.
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