The teen child of the billionaire co-founder of Slack has vanished and, police fear, might have run away to one of San Francisco’s most dangerou

16-year-old child of billionaire tech CEO reported missing

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2024-04-26 13:30:06

The teen child of the billionaire co-founder of Slack has vanished and, police fear, might have run away to one of San Francisco’s most dangerous neighbourhoods.

Mint Butterfield, the child of former Slack CEO and Canadian Stewart Butterfield, is considered a runaway, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office in California said in a statement.

The teen was last seen on Sunday in Bolinas, Calif., and her mother, Flickr founder Caterina Fake, reported the youth missing on Monday, according to the San Francisco Standard.

The 16-year-old is believed to be in the Tenderloin neighbourhood of San Francisco, about 50 km from Bolinas, a law enforcement official familiar with the case told NBC News.

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Officials told the Standard the teen has a history of substance abuse and is known to frequent the Tenderloin, a notoriously high crime area where drug usage and trafficking is rampant. Last November, a Drug Enforcement Administration official called it “ground zero for drug tourism” in a press release.