The Canadian entrepreneur spent his early childhood without electricity, taught himself to code, and studied philosophy at Cambridge before falling into a tech career that’s now pitting him against Microsoft and Google.<\/p>\n
Butterfield’s biggest business success, Slack, is a corporate communications tool that arouses the kind of devotion that brings to mind Blackberry’s early days\u2014and is aimed at reducing some of the 269 billion emails sent around the world each day. In person, Butterfield is soft-spoken and thoughtful, as one would expect from a guy who once contemplated a career as a philosophy prof. He joined us at RBCDisruptors earlier this week, where we had a chance to talk to him about effective communications, the merits of Silicon Valley and why corporate values are important. Here’s some of what we learned.
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