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Flickr was initially built to be sold for $1M to fund gaming
“And that thing ended up being Flickr, and I think when we started it, the intention was, we'll build this, and someone will buy it for, like, a million dollars, and then we can use that million dollars to finish the game.”
Butterfield: Glitch had capital left over when the company shut it down
“In fact, we had money left over when we decided to shut it down, but it was apparent that it wouldn't work”
Butterfield left $10M in equity for a $35K buyout before dot-com crash
“And so around the end of February of the year, 2000, I quit. I walked away. I thought I was walking away from like ten million dollars in equity. And I got bought out for 35,000 dollars on my way out.”
Butterfield pitched early Slack investors on a $1B valuation target
“We went in there and told them our plan and, you know our grand ambition, which was, hey, we believe that there's, you know, we could one day get to a hundred million dollars in revenue with this business and thereby be a billion dollar business.”
Butterfield plans to donate almost all of his wealth
“I'm just gonna give almost all of it away, because I, there's no, I don't get any additional happiness in spending it, and there's a lot of suffering in the world, and there's a lot of inequality, and I think that's a place where, not just me, but the whole co…”