
Meanwhile, Stewart began messing around with computers and taught himself how to code. When Stewart was five, the family moved to Victoria, where his father started a successful construction business later on. Norma gave birth to Stewart in 1973, naming him Dharma, a Hindu term that can be translated to “virtue”.

He met his future wife Norma and the pair joined a hippie commune in the fishing village of Lund, British Columbia. His father David Butterfield moved to Canada in the 1970s after fleeing the North Carolina army base that prepared him to fight alongside other Americans in Vietnam. To understand the company’s rise to prominence, it is worth taking a look at the life history of its main spokesperson – CEO Stewart Butterfield. Slack was founded and launched in 2013 by Stewart Butterfield (CEO), Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov.
