The amazing life of Stewart Butterfield, the CEO who led Slack to become a $7 billion company and a debut on the public markets

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Slack started as a video game called 'Glitch.' Then it became so much more.

, the fast-growing workplace-chat platform with a $7 billion private valuation, filed the paperwork on Friday to publicly list its shares in a direct listing.

Stewart Butterfield founded Slack in 2013 after selling his first startup, Flickr, to Yahoo for more than $20 million.Before building his $7 billion startup Slack — which many consider the fastest-growing business app ever, and which— Stewart Butterfield ran another hot startup called Flickr, which sold to Yahoo for over $20 million.

This time, Butterfield's exit promises to be much splashier. The workplace messaging app, born out of a now-defunct gaming startup Tiny Speck, will find itself in the spotlight when it has what's widely expected to be an exciting debut on the public markets., Butterfield's journey to success stands out. Along the way, Butterfield grappled with trying to fundraise for a startup in a post-tech bubble landscape.

 

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I don’t particularly like slack but it’s success is impressive 👏 heads up

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