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Once in Canada, he met Stewart’s mother, Norma.

His father, David Butterfield, now a local developer, had fled to Quebec from the base where he was serving in North Carolina to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War. Along with his openness and his startup wins, his path from hippie-commune child to cover-boy entrepreneur makes for an irresistible success story.īutterfield was born as Dharma in 1973 in the fishing village of Lund, B.C. Time Magazine named him one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” and he’s one of BusinessWeek‘s “Top 50 Leaders.” He’s appeared on the cover of Newsweek and recently made headlines again when he took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to “congratulate” Microsoft on its competing chat app. There are the frequent f-bombs, the time he told the New York Times that Slack was worth $3 billion “because people say it is,” and the story in the Financial Review, in which he said, “Everyone kisses my arse … because I’m the CEO.” Which may be why Slack’s head of PR, Julia Blystone, stays on the line for the entirety of my interview with him.īut even with Blystone in the background, Butterfield seems relaxed and forthcoming about the challenges at Slack, the fallout after the $20-million sale of Flickr (his photo-sharing site) to Yahoo in 2005, and his own difficulties being a leader.īutterfield is a media darling. S tewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, has a history of being unusually candid when talking to the media.