The teenage daughter of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield has gone missing and is believed to be in a dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco.
Mint Butterfield, 16, was last seen at 10 p.m. on Sunday in Bolinas, California, as reported by Marin County Sheriff spokesperson Deputy Jose Suarez.
Her mother, Flickr founder Caterina Fake, reported Mint missing on Monday, according to the San Francisco Standard.
Mint and her mother were living in Bolinas and attending a private boarding school in the Napa area at the time of her disappearance.
According to Sheriff’s officials, Mint was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, flannel pajama pants, black boots, and possibly carrying a gray suitcase.
The 5-foot-tall teen with curly, brown-red hair and pierced eyebrows is believed to have run away to the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, known for its violent crimes, homelessness, and drug activity.
Mint Butterfield has a history of substance abuse and has been known to frequent Tenderloin in the past.
If you have any information on Mint’s whereabouts, please contact the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.
Stewart Butterfield co-founded Slack in 2013 and left the company after its acquisition by Salesforce in 2021 for $28 billion.
His net worth is around $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Caterina Fake founded Flickr with Butterfield in 2004 and sold it to Yahoo! in 2005 for around $30 million.
Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake married in 2001 but divorced in 2007, the same year Mint was born. She is their only child.
Stewart Butterfield remarried Jennifer Rubio, the co-founder and CEO of luggage company Away, in 2020. They sold their San Francisco home and moved to a mansion in Aspen, Colorado.
The Aspen mansion features amenities like a 500-bottle wine cellar, six bedrooms, and a three-car garage.
Rubio and Butterfield also own a mansion in Southampton, New York, with 11 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, and an all-weather tennis court near Cooper’s Beach.
In New York City, they own a West Village townhouse and a Tribeca townhouse with a private skybridge overlooking the city.
