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A year later, Butterfield and company sold Flickr for a reported $25 million to Yahoo. And because of the platform’s focus on open-source development, users were able to alter Flickr to their liking.įlickr became an instant sensation with users all over the world, attracting millions of photo enthusiasts every month

That demo ended up becoming, one of the world’s first platforms that allowed people to share photos with each other. The day before a big tech conference in San Diego, they scrambled together a quick prototype and presentation of the tool.

Luckily, the team had developed a tool that allowed users to upload and share images. In fact, he was such a big fan that he moved to Vancouver to work on the game together with Butterfield and his then-wife Catarina Fake.īy 2004, it became evident that the game was failing. One of the game’s biggest fans was a young London-based programmer named Cal Henderson. Game Neverending was, as the name indicates, a multiplayer fantasy game where users created characters that explored an infinite world (similar to Minecraft). At the age of 12, he changed his name from Dharma to Stewart.īut instead of pursuing Computer Science route, Butterfield went on to study philosophy at the University of Victoria as well as Cambridge University, where he completed his master’s degree in 1998.Īt the turn of the millennium, when the thirst for tech startups was at its all-time high, Butterfield moved back to Canada to start a gaming company. Meanwhile, Stewart began messing around with computers and taught himself how to code. When Stewart was five, the family moved to Victoria, where his father started a successful construction business later on. Norma gave birth to Stewart in 1973, naming him Dharma, a Hindu term that can be translated to “virtue”. He met his future wife Norma and the pair joined a hippie commune in the fishing village of Lund, British Columbia. His father David Butterfield moved to Canada in the 1970s after fleeing the North Carolina army base that prepared him to fight alongside other Americans in Vietnam. To understand the company’s rise to prominence, it is worth taking a look at the life history of its main spokesperson – CEO Stewart Butterfield. Slack was founded and launched in 2013 by Stewart Butterfield (CEO), Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov.