Flickr Founders Quit: The Job "Sucked"

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake were the parents of Flickr. The husband and wife team built the photo sharing site, made it into an Internet sensation, and sold it to Yahoo! for $35 million in 2005. Now they've decided to leave their jobs at Yahoo!. TechCrunch reports that Kakul Srivastava has taken over as general manager of Flickr.

On a Flickr message board, Butterfield answered speculation about his successor with the following:

"None of Heather, Cal, Eric or George (and definitely not Serguei) would want my job (it sucked!). But Kakul really is awesome, and any of the five abovementioned would back up my claim on the TC post that having Kakul in charge is better than having me."