- Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield (born 1973) is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded the photo sharing website
Flickr and its parent companyLudicorp with his wifeCaterina Fake . In March 2005 Ludicorp was acquired byYahoo! , where Butterfield continued as the General Manager of Flickr. Butterfield resigned from Yahoo effective2008-07-12 . [ [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/flickr-co-founders-join-mass-exodus-from-yahoo/ Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo] ]In 2005 Butterfield was named one of Businessweek's Top 50 Leaders [ [http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/12/bestleaders/source/19.htm Businessweek 2005 Top Leaders: Entrepreneurs] ] 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 [ [http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=89 Technology Review's TR35 2005] ] . On 2006 he was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world [ [http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/ 2006 Time 100] ] . The same year, he appeared on the cover of Newsweek [ [http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2006/03/flickr-newsweek.html Newsweek cover image] ] [ [http://www.newsweek.com/id/45976 April 3, 2006 Newsweek cover story 'The New Wisdom of the Web'] ] magazine.
Butterfield received a B.A. in philosophy from the
University of Victoria , and aMaster of Philosophy from theUniversity of Cambridge , where he specialized in the philosophy of biology, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind.He lives in
San Francisco ,California .Butterfield was educated at
St. Michaels University School inVictoria, British Columbia .External links
* [http://www.flickr.com/people/stewart/ Flickr Profile]
* [http://www.ludicorp.com/team_member.php?id=1 Ludicorp Profile]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015774/site/newsweek/ Newsweek Profile]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186931,00.html Time Profile]
* [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/02/04/sb_flckr.html O'Reilly Interview]
* [http://sylloge.com/ Sylloge] (weblog)References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
