Employee Turnover

Parting of Ways

Stewart Butterfield

Title: Co-founder and general manager, Flickr

Former Responsibilities: Flickr

Departure Date: July 12, 2008

New job: Unknown

On leaving Yahoo:"I don't know what you and the other executives have planned for this company, but I know that my ability to contribute has dwindled to near-nothing, and not entirely because of my advancing age," Butterfield wrote to other executives in a resignation e-mail published by gossip site Valleywag. "Therefore, with a heavy heart, I recognize that it is time for me and the company to part ways."