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Stewart Butterfield

Slack CEO. Love making software and love to learn.

San Francisco, California

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Skills

User Experience
Product Management
Start-ups
User Interface Design
Entrepreneurship
Social Networking
Online Advertising
Interaction Design
Strategic Partnerships
Digital Media
Angel Investing
Community Sites
Mobile Applications
Monetization
Mobile Devices
Scalability
Business Development
Social Media
Web Applications
Blogging

Education

Work Experience

  • CEO & Co-founder

    2009 - 2023

    You know in cartoons when they run off a cliff but they don't fall until they look down? I am trying not to look down!

2005 - 2008

  • General Manager, Flickr / Senior Director of Product Management

    2005 - 2008

Flickr (technically, Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd.)

2002 - 2005

  • CEO & Co-founder

    2002 - 2005

    Ludicorp made Flickr and got bought by Yahoo. I was responsible for finance, product direction and talking to lawyers.

1996 - 2002

  • Software and Internet Product Design Consultant

    1996 - 2002

    Consulting in various roles -- interaction design, user research, visual/creative & interface design, design management, and business development & strategic consulting -- to public and private sector organizations, from start-ups to Global 1000.

Gradfinder.com

2000 - 2000

  • Managing Director and Company Secretary

    2000 - 2000

    Co-wrote business plan, raised investment capital and took part in negotiating Gradfinder's acquisition by Highwired.com with a healthy profit for investors and employees — all after black April 2000. Redesigned crucial areas of the site, resulting in a 95% increase in the conversion rate and a stop to falling monthly page views per user.

1999 - 2000

  • Director of the Design Group at Communicate.com

    1999 - 2000

    Directed the design group of, at the time, the largest design + development shop in Vancouver. Acted as design lead or directly managed several million dollars worth of projects. Played a key role in business development and recruiting efforts; as well as in managing the company's rapid growth (including 100% employee growth — from 30 to 60 — and tripling revenue in one six month period).