The 16-year-old daughter of a billionaire tech CEO is missing and is believed to be in San Francisco’s tough Tenderloin neighborhood.
Mint Butterfield, daughter of wealthy businessman Stewart Butterfield, was last seen Sunday evening around 10 p.m. in Bolinas, California, and was reported missing the next morning by her mother.
The teen has a history of substance abuse and is known to frequent San Francisco’s notoriously dangerous 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 flyer on X and said Butterfield was now suspected of hanging around the net.
Mint Butterfield, the 16-year-old daughter of billionaire tech CEO Stewart Butterfield, has disappeared
Mint’s father, Stewart Butterfield (pictured), is co-founder of messaging app Slack and currently has a net worth of $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 launched the Flickr imaging service with her then partner, Butterfield. They sold the image hosting site to Yahoo in 2005.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey shared the flyer on X and said Butterfield was now suspected of hanging around Tenderloin, a seedy neighborhood in San Francisco (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 one of the highest levels of homelessness and illicit activity in the crime-ridden city. It’s the center of San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis.
Squalid conditions, homelessness, crime, drug dealing, prostitution, liquor stores and strip clubs give the neighborhood a bad reputation.
Mint’s father, Butterfield, is a co-founder of the messaging app Slack and his fortune currently stands at $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 the Flickr imaging 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 one of the highest levels of homelessness and illicit activity in the crime-ridden city. This is the center of San Francisco’s Fentanyl crisis
Squalid conditions, homelessness, crime, drug dealing, prostitution, liquor stores and strip clubs give the neighborhood a bad reputation.
Butterfield has since married Jen Rubio, co-founder of Away, an American luggage and travel accessories brand, and the couple have two young children together.
Fake is now in a relationship with Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engestrom, and the couple shares 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, sits on 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 wet bar and pool table, a 500-bottle wine cellar , a tasting room, various separate gathering spaces, six beautifully appointed spaces. bedrooms with private bathrooms and a three-car garage.
Butterfield also owns a $19 million home in San Francisco, which has seven bedrooms and 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 have 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, sits on a five-acre estate overlooking the Castle Creek Valley.
Butterfield also owns a $19 million home in San Francisco, which has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms and is located in the upscale Presidio Heights neighborhood.
American journalist Yshar Ali implored his followers on disappeared.
“Please spread this far and wide, and if you have any information on their whereabouts, call the number on this flyer.”
DailyMail.com has contacted Butterfield and Fake for comment.
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