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Stewart Butterfield

Canada 53 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Messaging software
Industry
Technology
Residence
Aspen, Colorado
Organization
Cofounder and CEO at Slack
Education
University of Cambridge (Master of Philosophy)
University of Victoria (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Marital Status
Married
Children
1

Assets

  • Salesforce.com
    1,271,000 shares @ -
    -
    CRM-US
  • Salesforce.com
    54,000 shares @ -
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    CRM-US
  • Slack Technologies
    0 shares @ -
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    WORK-US

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.

About

Butterfield cofounded image hosting site Flickr in 2003; it was purchased by Yahoo for $35 million in 2005.