Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath on Maximizing Innovation

Over the last two decades, Atlassian has become the leading creator of enterprise project management software. Its suite of tools include Jira, Confluence and Trello -- products that guide the workflows of many Fortune 500 companies.

Sri Viswanath has been CTO at Atlassian for more than 5 years. He’s a deep thinker who’s comfortable inside complex adaptive systems. And he’s constantly tweaking his technical team’s process to spark continued innovation.

“If you improve 1% a day, You're 37 times better at the end of the year,” says Sri. 

How does he encourage that kind of steady improvement? In this episode, Steve and Quentin talk with Sri about his appetite for complexity, his management style, and how Atlassian develops new products.

This podcast is a production of General Catalyst.