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Marriage
Stewart and Caterina married in 2001. They were both online design consultants and had a lot of ideas. Two weeks after their honeymoon they started their company Ludicorp. -
Flickr is Launched
Butterfield and Fake launched the site in Februrary 2004. Fake and one of the employees would spend 24 hours a day seven days a week greeting ever person who visited the site. They introduced them to people and chatted with them. -
Yahoo Buys Flickr
Yahoo purchased flickr from Ludicorp for an estimated $35 million. From late June to early July, all of the flickr servers were moved from Canada to servers in the United States. -
Divorce
Caterina Fake and Steward Butterfield quitely separate after 6 years of marriage. -
Stewart Butterfield Leaves Yahoo
Stewart Butterfield sent Yahoo is letter of resignation and he officially left Yahoo. He went on to pursue his own business ventures without Caterina Fake. -
hunch.com is Launched
Caterina Fake creates her own website with a group of 11 MIT graduates. The website is designed to use decision trees to make decisions based off of the user's interests. -
Slack is Unveiled
Stewart Butterfield unveils a new business idea, slack. It's a service that will help get rid of company emails. Within 24 hours of unveiling, 8,000 companies already signed up for the service.
