Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864825

He is a rich jerk, and this is still wildly unprofessional behavior.

This is a bonfire of vanities and nothing more.

I got downvoted for posing the possibility that the atlassian ceo actually is a ‘rich jerk’ and that his retaliation towards this employee was evidence of the statement itself.

I guess I’ve been vindicated. I’ll be accepting apologies.