Slack and Flickr; Stewart Butterfield by Kya H https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef en-us 2021-02-23 15:57:58 UTC 2026-02-20 09:50:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Background kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246122516   Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded both Flickr (2004), a photo-sharing site, and Slack Technologies, Inc. (2009), a dot-com enterprise that provided organizations with Slack, an internal-messaging service that facilitated employee collaboration.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stewart-Butterfield
]]> 2021-02-26 17:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246122516 Gradfinder.com kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246189990 In 2000, Butterfield worked with a friend to build a startup called Gradfinder.com . Following Gradfinder.com's acquisition, he worked as a freelance web designer. Butterfield also created a contest called the 5K competition centered around people designing websites under 5 kilobytes.]]> 2021-02-26 17:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246189990 Ludicorp and Flickr kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246198587 In the summer of 2002, Stewart co-founded Ludicorp in Vancouver with Caterina Fake and Jason Classon. Ludicorp initially developed a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Game Neverending. The game did not launch, but the company then started a photo-sharing website called Flickr. 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.]]> 2021-02-26 17:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246198587 Tiny Speck kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246206399 In 2009 Butterfield cofounded a new company called Tiny Speck. 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, 2012, but the web site, with most of the content, is still available. In January 2013, it was announced that the company would make most of the game's art available under a Creative Commons license. On December 9, 2014, a fan project to relaunch Glitch under the name Eleven began alpha testing.]]> 2021-02-26 17:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246206399 Slack kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246211804
In August 2013, Butterfield announced the release of Slack, an instant-message-based team communication tool built by Tiny Speck while working on Glitch. Since its public release in February 2014, the tool has grown at a weekly rate of 5 to 10 percent, with more than 120,000 daily users registered in the first week of August 2014. As of August 2014, Slack has garnered US$1.5 million in revenue and raised US$60 million in venture capital. In early 2014, the data for Slack's first six-month usage period since the preview release was published, showing that nearly 16,000 users were registered without the use of any form of advertising—growth was based solely upon word-of-mouth.

Butterfield secured an office for Slack employees in San Francisco in 2014 and was expected to commence recruitment during the second half of the year.

]]> 2021-02-26 17:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246211804 Land kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246224954 Stewart Butterflied recourses were very wise when he started Slack. He had always used the messaging part of Slack from the start and just never really considered how useful it would be to others. ]]> 2021-02-26 17:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246224954 Labor kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246238764 Stewart always kept his friends close even in hard times, when he had to let his employees go after he decided to shut down Glitch, he continued to pay them and helped them find new jobs that were even better. When Flickr was started he rehired many of those employees back to help him ]]> 2021-02-26 17:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246238764 Capital kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246253110 Stewart built off his failed ideas and always thought back to the start of all his projects to make them as high quality and to the best they can be for the customers. An example of this is after yahoo bought Flickr, he used the money to further grow the company and eventually leave yahoo.]]> 2021-02-26 17:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246253110 Entrepreneurship kyaleigh2022 https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246283859 even after 2 very successful businesses, Stewart still continues to perform at his highest levels and never takes failure or no as a way out.]]> 2021-02-26 17:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kyaleigh2022/vhgskvw4nsbiwnef/wish/1246283859