Mint Butterfield16, daughter of the founder and former CEO of the messaging platform Slack Stewart Butterfield and the co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake, has been missing since Sunday, April 21, from her home in Marin Country, California. The police were alerted by her mother on Monday and immediately released her identikit and a press release, https://twitter.com/MarinSheriff/status/1783687029844546008to aid research. According to authorities, the girl, who identifies as non-binary, she was last seen in Bolinas and may have headed to San Francisco (50 kilometers away, where he shares another house with his mother) in the neighborhood of Tenderloinknown as a Fentanyl dealing square.
The girl had already been reported for abuse
Mint Butterfield he used drugs in the past and is considered a minor «disappeared voluntarily and at risk, due to a previous suicide threat”. According to the police, she had already frequented the Tenderloin, a neighborhood where cases of addiction to Fentanyl (a powerful synthetic opioid) have continued to grow for some years. According to the police, this is where the dealers of this substance are also concentrated and this is where the young woman’s research is taking place. «Currently – we read again in a police press release – there is no information that leads us to believe she was taken against her will”.
Who are the parents
Stewart Butterfield, 51 years old, Canadian, in 2004 he founded the photo sharing platform Flickr together with Caterina Fake. In 2013 he then launched Slack, of which he was also CEO until 2022. Caterina Fake, 54 years old, American, she was co-founder of Flickr and in 2007 she founded the site Hunch, which deals with product reviews, together with Chris Dixon. The two married in 2001 and divorced in 2008.
