In the year 1996 – 2000, he was also a software and internet product design consultant in different roles – user research, interaction design, visual and interface design, design management, and even business development and strategic consulting.Īs part of the acquisition, Butterfield and Fake joined Yahoo! as the General Manager of Flickr until he left Yahoo! in July 2008. After a few changes and updates, Flickr was eventually sold to Yahoo in 2005 for around $22 million. It didn’t’ turn out really well as people could only share photos when they’re online. Butterfield, together with his team, created Flickr where users could share photos. In the summer of 2002, together with his then-wife Caterina Fake and friend Jason Classon, he co-founded Flickr (Ludicorp Research and Development Ltd.) Butterfield was responsible for finance and product direction.

In 2000, Butterfield joined his friend Jason Classon and built a startup called where he co-wrote the business plan, raised the investment capital, and also helped in negotiating Gradfinder’s acquisition by, maintaining a healthy profit for investors and employees.

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