Stewart Butterfield who is the CEO of the workplace messaging platform Slack has declared that he would step down from the position in January, know his age, wife, net worth
Stewart Butterfield would be replaced by Lidiane Jones who is presently an executive of VP and GM for digital experiences clouds at Salesforce. Salesforce Inc. has been acquired by Slack last year in the month of July. Butterfield’s stepping down news came days after the Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor declared his resignation.
Who Is Stewart Butterfield Slack CEO, His Age, Wife, Education, Salary, Net Worth 2022
Absolutely uncanny.
(From Slack co-founder @ericost) pic.twitter.com/ZtGnuMMCvB
— Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) December 6, 2022
Stewart Butterfield Age, Family And Education
Stewart Butterfield was born on the 21st of March in 1973 in a small fishing village based in British Columbia, Canada. His father was David and his mother’s name was Norma. His parents named him Dharma Jeremy Butterfield. His father was a sergeant in the US Army. Presently he is 49 years old.
Butterfield’s family lived in a commune in remote Canada post his father fled the US to avoid being called for the Vietnam War. They shifted to Victoria when he was just 5 years old. Stewart got his one of the first computers, an Apple II at the age of 7 years and learned coding himself. Stewart changed his name to Daniel Stewart Butterfield when was just 12 years old.
Butterfield completed his education at the St. Michaels University School based in Victoria, British Columbia where he also designed websites for extra money. He later on, did his further study from the University of Victoria in 1996 doing a degree in B.A. in philosophy. Later on, he enrolled himself at Clare College, Cambridge in 1998 to get a Master of Philosophy.
Butterfield married his Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake in 2001 and got separated in 2007. Stewart also has a daughter with Caterina Fake. In 2019, Stewart got engaged to Jennifer Rubio, co-founder of Away Luggage.
Stewart Butterfield Professional Career
Butterfield and her partner Jason Classon jointly began working on a startup, Gradfinder.com in 2000. In 2002, Stewart along with Caterina Fake and Jason Classon co-founded Ludicorp. The company later on, started a photo-sharing platform known as Flickr. In 2009, Butterfield co-founded a new company, named Tiny Speck.
In 2013, Butterfield established Slack, an instant-message-based team communication tool. It was developed by Tiny Speck while working on the Glitch. After its release in February of 2014, the platform grew swiftly more than 120,000 daily users registered in the first week of August.
Stewart Butterfield’s Net Worth
Stewart Butterfield is estimated to have a net worth of $1.6 billion. He earned a salary of $430,000.00, stock awards of $3,453,713.00, and other compensation of $285,421.00.
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