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Stewart Butterfield

Net worth $1.5B

Messaging software · Canada

Born
Mar 21, 1973
Age
53
Source
Messaging software
Residence
Aspen, Colorado
Citizenship
Canada
Marital status
Married
Children
1
Education
Master of Philosophy, University of Cambridge; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Victoria

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Stewart Butterfield is the cofounder and former CEO of team-based messaging software Slack.
  • In 2021, cloud software giant Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 billion in cash and stock.
  • Butterfield departed Salesforce in 2022, amid an exodus of executives at the company.
  • Butterfield and wife Jen Rubio, the founder of luggage startup Away, sold their San Francisco home and moved to Aspen in 2020.
  • Though he cofounded a tech company, Butterfield proudly majored in philosophy as an undergraduate at Canada's University of Victoria.
  • Butterfield cofounded image hosting site Flickr in 2003; it was purchased by Yahoo for $35 million in 2005.

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