Missing child of former CEO safe
Mint Butterfield, the teenage child of Slack cofounder and former CEO Stewart Butterfield, was safely located Saturday in San Francisco after being reported missing last week, and a man the teen was found with was arrested for “multiple criminal violations,” authorities said.
Mint, 16, was found inside of a van that belongs to an adult male friend, identified as 26-year-old Christopher “Kio” Dizefalo, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office. He was arrested and booked into the Marin County Jail, the sheriff ’s office said. Arrest records show Dizefalo was booked on suspicion of violations including child stealing.
The teen, who uses they/ them pronouns, was uninjured and told detectives that they voluntarily ran away from their home in Bolinas. Mint has since been reunited with their family.
“The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is thankful for the assistance of the San Francisco Police Department, the Oakland Police Department and the FBI for their continuous efforts in helping us locate Mint,” the sheriff ’s office said in a statement.
Mint was last seen late last Sunday night in Bolinas and reported missing the next day. Authorities believed the teen was in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, where they were known to frequent before running away from home, authorities said. The teen left a note for their mother indicating they ran away from their home in Bolinas.
Mint is the child of Stewart Butterfield, who co-founded the instant messaging app Slack and sold it to Salesforce in 2020, and Caterina Fake, who co-founded the websites Flickr and Hunch.