Daughter of billionaire founder of Slack disappears in the United States

The daughter of billionaire and co-founder of the Slack platform, Stewart Butterfield, has been missing since the night of Sunday, 21st, when she was seen in Bolinas, California, United States. Authorities are investigating whether 16-year-old Mint Butterfield fled to the Tenderloin, a San Francisco neighborhood known for violence and drug sales. The information is from the New York Post.

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The young woman’s mother, Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr, called the authorities on Monday, 22, after noticing her disappearance. “Mint was last seen wearing a black hoodie, pajama pants and black boots,” said Sheriff’s spokesman Jose Suarez.

Mint Butterfield is the daughter of two businessmen. Stewart Butterfield has a fortune equivalent to 1.6 billion dollars (around R$8.2 billion) and Caterina Fake is the founder of Flickr, an image service sold to Yahoo! for 30 million dollars (R$ 154.9 million). The couple divorced in 2007.

Stewart Butterfield was in charge of Slack from 2013 until 2021, when the company was purchased by Salesforce for $28 billion.

According to police, the young woman abuses drugs and frequently goes to the Tenderloin. Because of this, the initial hypothesis of the American authorities is that she fled to a neighborhood that sells drugs.