

In 2002, he co-founded Ludicorp with his then-wife, Caterina Fake, and friend, Jason Classon. Michael's University School in Victoria, and he then went on to earn his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Victoria and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. At age 12, he changed his name to Daniel Stewart Butterfield.īutterfield attended St. After his family moved from the commune to Victoria, they got a computer, and Butterfield became fixated by the technology, teaching himself how to code. Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian entrepreneur and businessman, and the co-founder of photo-sharing website, Flickr, and channel-based messaging application, Slack.īorn Dharma Jeremy Butterfield, he spent the first five years of his life in a small village in British Columbia, living in a commune.
