# How Atlassian Built a Partner Ecosystem Without a Sales Team

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Podcast: [Business Development with Fexingo: Partnerships, BD, and Strategic Growth Conversations](https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-development-with-fexingo-partnerships-bd-and-strategic-growth-conversations-7871707)
Published: 2026-06-09T05:34:09+00:00
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Duration seconds: 497

## Resource

Atlassian turned enterprise sales on its head by not having a traditional sales force. Instead, it built a partner ecosystem of marketplace app developers, solution partners, and community advocates. This episode unpacks the $400 million marketplace, the 'flywheel' of plugin developers driving platform stickiness, and why Atlassian's no-sales-team model actually makes its partnerships more valuable. We trace how the partner program evolved from a simple referral desk to a multi-tiered ecosystem generating over $2 billion in partner-attributed revenue in fiscal 2025. Specific numbers, specific partnership tiers, and the strategic trade-offs of letting partners sell for you. #Atlassian #PartnerEcosystem #MarketplaceStrategy #NoSalesTeam #SaaS #PlatformBusiness #DeveloperPartners #AppEcosystem #RevenueFlywheel #B2BPartnerships #BusinessDevelopment #StrategicGrowth #Podcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #AtlassianMarketplace #SolutionPartners #PartnerLedGrowth Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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