Stewart Butterfield biography
Daniel Stewart Butterfield aka Dharma Jeremy Butterfield is a Canadian billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder of the photo-sharing website Flickr and the messaging app Slack. In 2021, software company Salesforce acquired Slack in a deal valued at around $28 billion. Jeremy was born and raised in Lund, British Columbia, Canada.
Butterfield graduated from St. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia and made money designing university websites. Thereafter, he received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Victoria. Steward also holds an MA in Philosophy from Clare College, Cambridge. Shortly after graduating from university, Daniel was hired and worked alongside Jason Classon to build a startup called Gradfinder.com. After that, he worked as a freelance web designer and also created a contest called the 5K competition, centered on people with the ability to create websites under 5 kilobytes.
In 2002, he, alongside Caterina Fake and Jason Classon, co-founded the company Ludicorp. The company grew day by day and eventually became a massively multiplayer online RPG called Game Neverending. After that, they launched a photo sharing website called Flickr. In 2005 Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!, however Butterfield continued to work as general manager of Flickr until he left Yahoo! in July 2008.
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A few months later, he co-founded a new project called Tiny Speck. The company put together its first project, a multiplayer game Gitch, but it was later shut down due to not being able to attract enough audience. Two years later, Butterfield launched Slack, an instant messaging-based team communication tool created by Tiny Speck. In six months, the tool had more than 16,000 registered users. By the end of 2015, Slack had raised $340 million in venture capital and had over 2 million daily active users.
That same year, it was elected the company of the year by the magazine. Recently, Butterfield announced his departure as CEO of Slack and left Salesforce in early January 2023. In addition, he has received many accolades and awards, including Businessweek’s “Top 50” Leaders in the Entrepreneur category. Stewart was also named on the “Time 100”, Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2017, he was featured on Masters of Scale, a podcast series by Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman, along with other successful entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg.
Stewart Butterfield age
Daniele 50 years in 2023. He was born in March 21, 1973, in Lund, British Columbia, Canada. Furthermore, he celebrates his birthday on Mach 21 every year.
Stewart Butterfield’s Wife
Butterfield was married twice, first to Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr. The couple remained married for six years before getting divorced. They also had a daughter who was born in 2007. After their divorce, Steward started dating Jennifer Rubio, whom he later got engaged to in May 2019. Rubio is the co-founder of Aay Luggage.
Stewart Butterfield family
Stewart is the son of Norma and David Butterfield. He grew up in a remote area in Canada before moving to Victoria when he was five. As a child, he taught himself to code and changed his name to Stewart at age 12.
Stewart Butterfield Net Worth
Daniel has an estimated net worth of between $1.2 billion – $1.5 billion dollars. He is one of the richest people in Canada. He accumulated his fortune from his career as an entrepreneur.