The story of being a millionaire of a programmer.
Stewart Butterfield, currently the world's leading face of technology, is Chief Executive of Claude-based software slack. Apart from slots worth thousands of crores of rupees, Flickr, the world's most popular photo-sharing website, came in the hands of Stuart Butterfield.
In a forest of British Columbia, he spent his childhood in a wooden cabin. There was no water and electricity system for three years there. In this regard, Stuart told the BBC that his parents were Hippies. After birth, 'Dharma' was named after him.
They started living in British Columbia's capital Victoria. At the age of seven, Stewart saw the computer first. From childhood, he learned computer program work. Apple was the first generation of computers created by his computer.
At the age of 12, the name changed to Stewart. He learned to create basic computer games at the age of 12. But after admitting high school, Stuart lost his charm to the computer. After admission to Victoria University, he removed the attention from the computer. After completing his post graduation in philosophy. In 1997, philosophy was trying to become a professor. The internet started to become popular at that time. Stuart said, at that time everyone who knew how to build a website was running in San Francisco. It was new and exciting.
He worked as a Web Designer for several years in Silicon Valley and in 2002 opened an online game with wife Katrina Fayk. The name of the game was 'Game Never Ending'. But the game was not popular. Then the money deposited to the two of them ended. Then they thought of doing something else. The husband and his wife started the film in just three months, the photo sharing platform 'Flickr'.
In 2004, the creator of Flickr, which was created in 2004, was the first website that allows people to upload photos, share, tag and comment. Just a year later, in the Internet world, Yahoo! sold the flick to just 2.5 million US dollars. After that, Stuart Butterfield apologized and said his decision was wrong. If it was too late for a while, then Flickr could have been sold at a higher price. "Then, in order to do something bigger than Flickr. Today's Slack of His New Effort The group gives easy access to co-workers.
But before making the slack, Stewart took some more initiatives. In 2009, some collaborators tried to create an online game. But he failed the attempt.
Stewart said, "In the making of games, we invented a method for internal communication. It was our very choice. It did not think of how much work it was, at the beginning. It was made for work among themselves. But a few years later we started thinking, it would be like others too. This idea was born from Slack.
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