Stewart Butterfield
$1.6B
Born
Mar 21, 1973
Age
52
Source of Wealth
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
- Stewart Butterfield is the cofounder and CEO of team-based messaging software Slack.
- In July 2021, cloud software giant Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 billion in cash and stock.
- Butterfield departed Salesforce in December 2022, amid an exodus of executives at the software giant.
- Butterfield and wife Jen Rubio, the founder of luggage startup Away, sold their San Francisco home in 2021 and moved to Aspen.
- Though he leads 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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