Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo June 20, 2008
Posted by Mark Blei in : Uncategorized , trackbackStewart Butterfield, the co founder of Flickr, has tendered his resignation to Yahoo, along with his wife and co founder Caterina Fake. They recently celebrated a “Vestfest” for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo
In this email to Yahoo! executive Brad Garlinghouse, Butterfield refers to Yahoo! as a tin-smithing concern, and finds that “there is no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. “
The Vallywag article says “This email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr’s San Francisco headquarters”
For your TGIF post for this week here is Butterfield’s full resignation letter:VIA Vallywag

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