Caterina Fake, the mother of Mint Butterfield and co-founder of Flickr, has filed a missing person’s report for her 16-year-old daughter. Butterfield was last seen on Sunday evening in Bolinas, California, which is located north of San Francisco. Authorities from the local sheriff’s office have issued a missing juvenile alert and are seeking information that could help locate Butterfield. The alert was shared in a Nextdoor post by K. Walther, a deputy with the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, who mentioned that Butterfield was last seen around 10 p.m. on Sunday. The following morning, they were reported missing.
Butterfield has been known to frequent the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, a neighborhood notorious for its social issues. DailyMail.com reported that Butterfield was also sighted in Larkspur Landing, a location north of San Francisco, according to a social media post by a family friend. The Marin County Sheriff’s Office described Butterfield as 5 feet tall, with brown/reddish curly hair, and pierced eyebrows. At the time of disappearance, Butterfield was wearing a black sweatshirt, flannel pajama pants, and black boots. Further details or updates about the situation are pending as the investigation continues.
Stewart Butterfield and Fake sold Flickr to Yahoo in 2005 for an estimated $30 million and divorced in 2007. Stewart Butterfield went on to co-found Slack in 2013 and has an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion according to Forbes as of December 2022 after his departure from the company