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Stewart Butterfield resigns from flickr/yahoo

You really have to wonder how a resignation letter like this winds up on the internet. But, it is great material for the folks over at Valleywag isn’t it! For a brief time I worked with Stewart as we tried to sort out the flickr/imagekind partnership. I found him to be an interesting, slightly eccentric character who has a real passion for doing things the right way. This letter makes the guy sound borderline crazy but I rather prefer to think he’s just an artsy guy living in the much-too-pragmatic world of the Silicon Valley. Had he been a follower of standard convention, we might never have gotten our flickr at all.

Stewart Butterfield resigns from flickr

June 18, 2008 | Filed Under inspiration 

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One Response to “Stewart Butterfield resigns from flickr/yahoo”

  1. Travis on June 19th, 2008

    Well, I for one think this is a brilliantly hilarious way to do this, and probably still get your point across. You would have to assume that him writing in this style means either a. this parting is amicable and he’s joking around for the sake of joking around - or b. any issues that caused him to resign are well known to this recipient and Stewart thought the idea of re-hashing them seriously was absurd in itself.

    Or that something else entirely is going on. Still, probably thought out with some rational behind it - not a crazy man talking.

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