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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