Daniel Stewart Butterfield was born on Dharma Jeremy Butterfield; March 21,1973 and is a Canadian billionaire businessman, best known for co-founding the photo-sharing website Flickr and the team-messaging application Slack.
14 Facts About Stewart Butterfield
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In 1973, Butterfield was born in Lund, British Columbia, to Norma and David Butterfield.
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Stewart Butterfield's family lived on a commune in remote Canada after his father fled the US to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War.
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Stewart Butterfield's family moved to Victoria when Butterfield was five years old.
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Stewart Butterfield was educated at St Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia and made money in university designing websites.
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In 2000, Stewart Butterfield worked with Jason Classon to build a startup called Gradfinder.
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Stewart Butterfield created a contest called the 5K competition, centered on people with the ability to design websites under 5 kilobytes.
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In 2009, Stewart Butterfield co-founded a new company called Tiny Speck.
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That same year, Stewart Butterfield secured an office for Slack employees in San Francisco, and was expected to commence recruitment during the second half of the year.
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In December 2022, Stewart Butterfield announced his departure as CEO of Slack and leaving Salesforce early in January 2023.
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In 2005, Stewart Butterfield was named one of Businessweek's "Top 50" Leaders in the entrepreneur category.
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In November 2008, Stewart Butterfield received the "Legacy Distinguished Alumni Award" from the University of Victoria.
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In 2015, Stewart Butterfield was named the Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovator for 2015, awarded TechCrunch's Founder of the Year Crunchie, and included in Vanity Fair's New Establishment, Advertising Age's Creative 50, and Details' Digital Mavericks lists.
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Stewart Butterfield was married to Caterina Fake, his Flickr co-founder, from 2001 to 2007.