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Stewart Butterfield (born 1973) is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr
Flickr

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 and its parent company Ludicorp
Ludicorp

Ludicorp is the company that created Flickr and Game Neverending. It was bought by Yahoo! in 2005....
 with his wife Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake

Caterina Fake is an United States businesswoman and entrepreneur.Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, attended Choate Rosemary Hall, Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991....
. In March 2005 Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
, where Butterfield continued as the General Manager of Flickr.






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Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield (born 1973) is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr
Flickr

Flickr is an and video hosting service website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository....
 and its parent company Ludicorp
Ludicorp

Ludicorp is the company that created Flickr and Game Neverending. It was bought by Yahoo! in 2005....
 with his wife Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake

Caterina Fake is an United States businesswoman and entrepreneur.Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, attended Choate Rosemary Hall, Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991....
. In March 2005 Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
, where Butterfield continued as the General Manager of Flickr. Butterfield resigned from Yahoo effective 2008-07-12.

In 2005 Butterfield was named one of Businessweek's Top 50 Leaders in the entrepreneur category and was awarded a TR35 award as one of 35 top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review . On 2006 he was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The same year, he appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine.

Butterfield was educated at St. Michaels University School
St. Michaels University School

St. Michaels University School is a private day and boarding school in the municipality of Saanich, which is a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada....
 in Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy....
. He received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 in philosophy from the University of Victoria
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is the second oldest degree granting university in British Columbia. This medium-sized university is located in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada with an enrollment figure of approximately 19,500 students, as of 2007....
, and a Master of Philosophy
Master of Philosophy

The Master of Philosophy is a postgraduate research degree requiring the completion of a thesis. It is a lesser degree than the Doctor of Philosophy or Engineering Doctorate , greater than the Bachelor of Philosophy , and is of greater scope than the Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees....
 from the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, where he specialized in the philosophy of biology, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind. In November 2008, Butterfield received the Legacy Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Victoria.

He lives in San Francisco, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
.

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