The 16-year-old daughter of billionaire Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield has gone missing and is feared to be in one of San Francisco’s most notoriously dangerous neighborhoods.
Mint Butterfield, 16, was last seen Sunday at 10 p.m. in Bolinas, California, according to Deputy Jose Suarez, a Marin County sheriff’s public information officer.
Butterfied’s mother and Flickr founder Katerina Fake reported the boy missing on Monday. san francisco standard.
The sheriff’s office said the two were living with Fake and attending a private boarding school in the Napa area at the time of their disappearance.
“The sheriff said Mint was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, flannel pajama pants, and black boots. They may also have been carrying a gray suitcase,” Suarez wrote in the article. I wrote it in statement.
But the 5-foot-tall boy with curly auburn hair and pierced eyebrows is believed to have fled to the Tenderloin, known for violent crime, rampant homelessness and an open-air drug market in downtown San Francisco.
Mint Butterfield has a history of substance abuse and is known to have frequented the Tenderloin in the past, the newspaper added.
“If you have any information regarding their whereabouts, please contact the Marin County Sheriff’s Office,” Suarez wrote.
Stewart Butterfield co-founded the messaging app Slack in 2013, but left the platform after Salesforce acquired the platform for $28 billion in 2021.
According to Forbes magazineHis net worth is approximately $1.6 billion.
Mr. Fake co-founded the image service Flickr with Mr. Butterfield in 2004 and sold the company to Yahoo. It was sold at auction in 2005 for approximately $30 million.
Fake and Stewart Butterfield married in 2001 but divorced in 2007, the same year their daughter was born.
Mint Butterfield is the couple’s only child.
Stewart Butterfield remarried Jennifer Rubio, co-founder and CEO of luggage manufacturing and retailer Away, in 2020.
In 2021, the couple, who have two children, sold their San Francisco home and moved into a $25 million mansion in the Five Trees neighborhood of Aspen, Colorado, as Slack retired. genuine.
The 10,600-square-foot home sits on five acres and features amenities such as a 500-bottle wine cellar and tasting room, six bedrooms, and a three-car garage.
Rubio and Stewart Butterfield also own a $32.2 million mansion in Southampton, New York.
The 17,000 square foot, dual gated driveway home has 11 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, an all-weather tennis court and is located near Southampton’s popular Coopers Beach.
They also own two properties in New York City’s most exclusive neighborhoods. One is a $27.27 million 8,000-square-foot West Village townhouse purchased in 2021, and the other is a $20 million Tribeca townhouse with a private skybridge overlooking the city in 2022. The paper reports. .
