Rank #2655
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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