Question 1

True or false: Stewart Butterfield co-founded Flickr before Stewart Butterfield created Slack.

Accepted Answer

True. Butterfield co-founded Flickr in 2004, which Yahoo acquired. He later founded Slack in 2013.

Question 2

True or false: Stewart Butterfield sold Flickr to Google for $35 million in 2005.

Accepted Answer

False. Flickr was sold to Yahoo, not Google, for an undisclosed sum estimated around $25-30 million.

Question 3

True or false: Stewart Butterfield once won an Emmy for a documentary he produced.

Accepted Answer

False. Butterfield is a tech entrepreneur (Flickr, Slack) with no known involvement in documentary filmmaking or Emmy wins. The claim is unverified and inconsistent with his public biography.

Question 4

True or false: Butterfield once worked as a philosophy professor before his tech career.

Accepted Answer

False. He never taught philosophy professionally; he studied it and briefly considered academia.

Question 5

True or false: Stewart Butterfield co-founded Slack with a team that included his former Flickr colleagues.

Accepted Answer

True. Several early Slack team members, like Cal Henderson, also worked with Butterfield at Flickr.

Question 6

True or false: Stewart Butterfield originally built Slack as a tool for his own gaming company.

Accepted Answer

True. Slack started as an internal communication tool for Tiny Speck, the game developer behind Glitch.

Question 7

True or false: Butterfield's birth name was actually Dharma Butterfield before he changed it.

Accepted Answer

True. He was born Dharma Jeremy Butterfield, but adopted the name Stewart in college.

Question 8

True or false: Stewart Butterfield has a degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

Accepted Answer

True. He earned a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in 1998. He also holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Victoria.

Stewart Butterfield Trivia Questions