Jay Simons is a former president of Atlassian who helped build the company from a small product portfolio to a multi-billion-dollar software company, giving him unusually deep operating experience compared to most venture investors. He's known for architecting Atlassian's no traditional sales team go-to-market model and championing unconventional company-building decisions, which now shapes how he identifies non-obvious, durable strategies when backing new companies at Bond. Jay Simons is a former president of Atlassian who helped build the company from a small product portfolio to a multi-billion-dollar software company, giving him unusually deep operating experience compared to most venture investors. He's known for architecting Atlassian's no traditional sales team go-to-market model and championing unconventional company-building decisions, which now shapes how he identifies non-obvious, durable strategies when backing new companies at Bond.