Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield (born Daniel Stewart Butterfield in 1973) is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman, best known for being the co-founder of the photo sharing website Flickr.
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Early life [edit]
Butterfield was educated at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia. He received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, where he specialized in the philosophy of biology, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind.
Ludicorp and Flickr [edit]
Butterfield co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr and its parent company Ludicorp with then-wife Caterina Fake. In March 2005 Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!, where Butterfield continued as the General Manager of Flickr until he left Yahoo on July 12, 2008.[1][2]
Tiny Speck [edit]
In 2009 Butterfield co-founded a new company called Tiny Speck.[3] Tiny Speck launched its first project, the massively multiplayer game Glitch, on September 27, 2011. Glitch was later closed due to its failure to attract a sufficiently large audience. The game world closed down on December 9, but the web site, with most of the content, is still available. [4][5] In January of 2013, it was announced that the company would make most of the game's art available under a Creative Commons license.[6][7]
Awards and honors [edit]
In 2005, Butterfield was named one of Businessweek's Top 50 Leaders [8] in the entrepreneur category. He was also named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[9][10] In 2006, he was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[11] In the same year, he appeared on the cover of Newsweek [12][13] magazine.
In November 2008, Butterfield received the Legacy Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Victoria.[14]
Personal life [edit]
Butterfield was married to Caterina Fake, his Flickr co-founder, from 2001[15] to 2007.[16] They had one daughter together, in 2007.[17]
According to his flickr profile, he currently lives in San Francisco, California.
References [edit]
- ^ Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
- ^ Butterfields creative resignation letter addressed to Brad Garlinghouse.
- ^ Kara Swisher. "Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game startup, Glitch". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ "A Flickr Founder's Glitch: Can A Game That Wants You To Play Nice Be A Blockbuster?". Fast Company. 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ "Vancouver’s Tiny Speck puts massively multiplayer game Glitch online". Vancouver Sun. 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ "Shuttered online game Glitch gets new life in the Creative Commons". BoingBoing. 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
- ^ "Glitch developer shares assets under Creative Commons license following closure of game". Polygon. 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
- ^ Businessweek 2005 Top Leaders: Entrepreneurs
- ^ "2005 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2005. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ Technology Review's TR35 2005
- ^ 2006 Time 100[dead link]
- ^ Newsweek cover image
- ^ Newsweek cover story 'The New Wisdom of the Web'
- ^ Flickr co-founder makes it big with an arts degree[dead link]
- ^ Love, e-company style, CNN Money, September 12, 2007
- ^ Devin Leonard (July 28, 2010). "What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service". Wired magazine. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ Silicon Valley’s baby boom, Owen Thomas, Gawker, July 12, 2007
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