yep, jared leto, the actor, photobombed our chat with stewart butterfield, the seemingly quintessentialerial silicon valley entrepreneur. but butterfield's story is anything but. in fact, he founded both of his companies by accident. one of his companies sold to twitter for $27 million in 2004. today, slack, the workplace collaboration app, is worth more than $7 billion and it's now battling microsoft, amazon, google, and facebook. joining me is the slack ceo and cofounder, stewart butterfield. ♪ emily: stewart, thank you so much for being here. stewart: my pleasure. emily: you had an unconventional childhood. your parents were hippies and chose to raise you off of the grid in british columbia. what was that like? stewart: i was a pretty little kid. i don't remember a lot of it. it was, in many ways, an idyllic childhood. i was raised in a log cabin. it's a great story because i kind of sound like abraham lincoln with no running water until i was three and no electricity until i was four. my father was from new york, and my mother was for montreal, and they really had no idea what they

emily: this is what happened the last time we interviewed stewart butterfield. [laughter] emily: yes, jared leto, the actor, who is also a tech investor with our chat with , stewart, the seemingly quintessential serial entrepreneur. but butterfield's story is anything but. in fact, he founded both of his companies by accident. flickr sold to twitter for $27 million and today, slack, the workplace 2004 collaboration app, is worth more than $7 billion and is now battling amazon, google and facebook. joining me is the slack ceo and cofounder, stewart butterfield. thank you so much for being here. stewart: my pleasure. emily: you had an unconventional childhood. your parents were hippies and chose to raise you off of the grid in british columbia. what was that like? stewart: i am not 100% clear on it. it was, in many ways, an idyllic childhood. no running water until i was three, no electricity until i was four. my father was from new york, and my mother was from montreal, and they really had no idea what they were doing when they tried to live off the land. it was p

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