RSSFlickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield, Invests & Joins Rouxbe?s Advisory Team
March 22nd, 2009 by Joe, Co-founder of Rouxbe
From top photo sharing site on the web, to up-and-coming top instructional cooking site on the web, Stewart follows his love of food and cooking and joins Rouxbe in its quest to become the leader in online culinary education.
Rouxbe has attracted top tier talent from almost every key discipline required to drive a company to excellence. Stewart adds the one missing ingredient ? a proven track record for building highly scalable, user-driven sites, that lead online categories. His expertise will help transition Rouxbe into a company to watch in the online food space.
Stewart Butterfield, was a co-founder of Flickr before its acquisition by Yahoo! in the spring of 2005. Until July 2008, he oversaw the development of Flickr.com as its General Manager inside Yahoo! where it has grown to one of the largest web sites in the world with over 70 million unique visitors a month.
In over a decade of working on the web, Stewart has had a distinguished career as a designer, entrepreneur, and technologist. He has been honored with awards ranging from being named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine in 2006 to Business Week’s Top 50 Leaders for 2005 and MIT Technology Review’s “TR 35″ award for technology innovators under 35. He has been featured in interviews and articles by over 100 publications and broadcasters including the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, The New York Times, CNN, the Financial Times and has appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine.
Butterfield graduated from the Universities of Victoria and Cambridge, with degrees in philosophy and retains academic interests in cognitive science, the history and philosophy of science, and economics. He lives in San Francisco, loves cooking and believes that learning cooking skills and techniques is the right path to culinary success.
Welcome to the team Stewart!
I am a long time user of Flickr. Welcome Stewart, you will find Roube is a great site.
Bienvenido al grupo Stewart, Good job
Congratulations for bringing Stewart Butterfiield “on board”. You already are the best instructional cooking site on the web – now, with his expertise, you can reach the millions who haven’t discovered Rouxbe yet. Good luck and welcome Stewart!
[...] cooking web upstart Rouxbe announced some big news yesterday – Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield is now on their advisory team and has make an equity [...]
Fantastic and welcome. Sure to be happy.
Stewart knows a good thing when he sees it.
Welcome Stewart; it is also an honer.
There will be no regrets.
High fives all around. Welcome Stewart.
So. Can you cook?
— Chris
p.s. Of course I’m hoping for something epic like the line from the Star Trek movie where Bibi Besch says (after creating a new planet full of life) “Can I cook or can’t I?” Rouxbe poster idea?
[...] In this lesson, we will show you the few key steps required to prepare a perfect beurre blanc. Coincidentally, the release of this lesson on “butter sauces” fall just days after the release of another major Rouxbe announcement: Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr.com, the world’s largest photo sharing site, becomes Rouxbe’s newest investor and acting member of our advisory board. Read all the details here. [...]
[...] inform you that we are about to embark on a much desired Rouxbe facelift. With the new addition of Stewart Butterfield to our team, we wanted to take a brief step back to start making some major site improvements. But [...]
That is sweet, sweet news.
I was/am an early user to both Flickr and Rouxbe. Needless to say, I love them both. It’ll be great to see the evolution of Rouxbe much in the same way I experienced the evolution of Flickr. I’m excited.
Fantastic news. Congrats to all.
Welcome to the block, Butter (the chopping block that is *wakka wakka wakka*)
Like you – I can spot a winner when I see one and I just discovered Rouxbe a couple days ago when my sister sent me a link. I immediately recognized the value of this site with SO MANY budding gourmets/gourmands (whatev they’re called) wanting to take a crack at that whole Martha Stewart/Naked Chef/Simply Ming kinda thing. And the cool thing about this site is that the levels of expertise are scalable (especially with those handy drill downs) which makes it super accessible for the novice who wants to know a little bit about everything to the seasoned chef who’s looking for something fresh to try or something tried and true to put their own twist on.
So, yeah – you ‘go’ boy! Do yo’ thang. And I promise I won’t be surprised when Oprah and Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart are mentioning Rouxbe on their shows. Cuz I know you got it like that. And one day, I’m gonna have it like that, too! From one diamond to another.
haha
peace. pia
Well BAM! Pia. Put your hands on the back of the stove and FEEL the power. Thanks for the enthusiasm. It’s catchy.
NO, do not pollute this site by the likes of a Rachel Ray! It does NOT take under 30 minutes to develop beautiful deep flavor in a dish. She destroyed the FN and this site deserves so much better, it is about QUALITY COOKING, NOT SHORTCUTS. Now Martha Stewart earned her chops, from nothing but intelligence. Listen to Ms. Ray. She doesn’t even speak her primary language correctly half the time. Finally, someone corrected her in her latter shows. It was about time. Ms. Stewart went to an Ivy league school when it was not “cool” for a young lady to do so, unless you where planning on marrying, which she did and then got rid of the gent. But she USED her intelligence to build an empire which got her in a lot of trouble. She is a true entrepreneur there is no comparison to Ms. Ray and I’d take any form of publicity other than from her. Sorry, PiaShantee, but you referred to one of my least liked persons in the culinary world. If you can call what she does culinary. NOT.
No need for panic, Julie. I don’t work for Rouxbe (nor do I play any of them on TV) but I’m pretty sure most of us here agree with you. I doubt either Ms Ray or Ms Stewart are likely to have anything to do with Rouxbe. They both have their own empires and own agendas. If either one of them happens to mention Rouxbe on air – that would be excellent. Take free publicity when you can get it, whether it comes from someone you happen to like or not. In the meantime – be true to your food.
No panic, just a dislike for something not truly possible. Otherwise called…..starts with an “l’