The 16-year-old daughter of a billionaire technology CEO has disappeared and is believed to be in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
Mint Butterfield, daughter of wealthy businessman Stewart Butterfield, was last seen Sunday night around 10 pm in Bolinas, California, and was reported missing by her mother the next morning.
The teen has a history of substance abuse and is known to frequent the notoriously dangerous San Francisco neighborhood ‘The Tenderloin,’ according to The San Francisco Standard.
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office posted a “missing” flyer with Mint’s photo on the social media platform Nextdoor on Tuesday.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey shared the flier about X and said Butterfield was now believed to be hanging around the Tenderloin.
Mint Butterfield, the 16-year-old daughter of billionaire technology CEO Stewart Butterfield, has disappeared
Mint’s father, Stewart Butterfield (pictured), is a co-founder of messaging app Slack and is currently worth $1.6 billion. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in 2021 for $28 billion, and Butterfield left the company in 2022.
Mint’s mother is Caterina Fake (pictured), who started and created the Flickr image service with her then partner, Butterfield. They sold the image hosting website to Yahoo in 2005.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey shared the flier about X and said Butterfield was now believed to be hanging around the Tenderloin, a seedy San Francisco neighborhood (pictured).
Mint was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, flannel pajama pants, and black boots. She is described as having curly brown/reddish hair and pierced eyebrows.
The Tenderloin, located in downtown San Francisco, has a reputation for crime and has some of the highest levels of homelessness and illicit activity in the crime-ridden city. It is the center of the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco.
Miserable conditions, homelessness, crime, illegal drug dealing, prostitution, liquor stores and strip clubs give the neighborhood a seedy reputation.
Mint’s father, Butterfield, is a co-founder of the messaging app Slack and is currently worth $1.6 billion. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in 2021 for $28 billion, and Butterfield left the company in 2022.
His mother is Caterina Fake, who started and created the Flickr image service with her then partner, Butterfield. They sold the image hosting website to Yahoo in 2005.
Fake and Butterfield married in 2001 and remained together until 2007, when their daughter Mint was born.
The Tenderloin, located in downtown San Francisco, has a reputation for crime and has some of the highest levels of homelessness and illicit activity in the crime-ridden city. It is the center of the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco
Miserable conditions, homelessness, crime, illegal drug dealing, prostitution, liquor stores and strip clubs give the neighborhood a seedy reputation.
Butterfield has since married Jen Rubio, co-founder of Away, an American luggage and travel accessories brand, and the couple has two young children together.
Fake is now in a relationship with Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engestrom, and the couple share three children.
At the time of her disappearance, Mint was living with her mother and attending a private boarding school in the Napa area, according to the sheriff’s office.
In 2021, Butterfield purchased a $31.7 million mansion in Aspen, Colorado. The residence, located in the exclusive Five Trees neighborhood, is spread across a five-acre estate overlooking the Castle Creek Valley.
According to the listing, the property features a generous home gym, a state-of-the-art home theater, a second entertainment area with a bar and pool table, a 500-bottle wine cellar, a tasting room, several Separate meeting room, six en-suite bedrooms and garage for three cars.
Butterfield also owns a $19 million home in San Francisco, which has seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms and is located in the upscale Presidio Heights neighborhood.
Butterfield has since married Jen Rubio, co-founder of Away, an American luggage and travel accessories brand, and the couple has two young children together.
In 2021, Butterfield purchased a $31.7 million mansion in Aspen, Colorado. The residence, located in the exclusive Five Trees neighborhood, is spread across a five-acre estate overlooking the Castle Creek Valley.
Butterfield also owns a $19 million home in San Francisco, which has seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms and is located in the upscale Presidio Heights neighborhood.
American journalist Yshar Ali asked his
“Please spread this far and wide, and if you have any information on his whereabouts, call the number on this flyer.”
DailyMail.com has contacted Butterfield and Fake for comment.
