In August 2013, Butterfield announced the release of Slack, an instant-message-based team communication tool, built by Tiny Speck while working on Glitch. On December 9, 2014, a fan project to relaunch Glitch under the name Eleven began alpha testing. In January 2013, the company announced that it would make the most of the game's art available under a Creative Commons license. The game world closed down on December 9, 2012, but the website remained online.

Glitch was later closed due to its failure to attract a sufficiently large audience. Tiny Speck launched its first project, the massively multiplayer game Glitch, on September 27, 2011. In 2009, Butterfield co-founded a new company called Tiny Speck. In March 2005, Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!, where Butterfield continued as the General Manager of Flickr until he left Yahoo! on July 12, 2008. After the game failed to launch, the company started a photo-sharing website called Flickr. Ludicorp initially developed a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Game Neverending. In the summer of 2002, he co-founded Ludicorp with Caterina Fake and Jason Classon in Vancouver. Butterfield also created a contest called the 5K competition, centered on people with the ability to design websites under 5 kilobytes. Following 's acquisition, he worked as a freelance web designer. In 2000, Butterfield worked with Jason Classon to build a startup called. degree in philosophy from the University of Victoria in 1996 and went on to earn a Master of Philosophy from Clare College, Cambridge in 1998. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia and made money in university designing websites. As a child, Butterfield taught himself how to code, and changed his name to Stewart when he was 12. His family moved to Victoria when Butterfield was five years old. His family lived on a commune in remote Canada after his father fled the US to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War. For the first five years of his life he grew up in a log cabin without running water or electricity.

In 1973, Butterfield was born in Lund, British Columbia, to Norma and David Butterfield. Daniel Stewart Butterfield (born Dharma Jeremy Butterfield Ma) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, best known for co-founding the photo-sharing website Flickr and the team-messaging application Slack.

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