[pmurt7]

Mitchell Baker (Mozilla CEO) makes $3 million a year, and Mozilla asks you to donate "to help a nonprofit organization".

"On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

"By 2020 her salary had risen to over $3 million, while in the same year the Mozilla Corporation had to lay off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic."

This lady then goes on and on talking about "social justice".

Also Google deal produces 90% of Mozilla's revenue. I would say Mozilla is really controlled opposition.

[wolpoli]

Mozilla has been prioritizing activism while the main product that brings the cash in falls behind. If the current trend continues, Mozilla will cease to exist. In a normal company, it should be focused on fixing this ASAP, but Mozilla seems contend continuing as is.

Does anyone know who actually controls the direction of the organization? How are the board members chosen/elected? Is there a way for the general public to pick other board members?

[soundnote]

Importantly: The donations go to Mozilla Foundation, not to its for-profit subsidiary Mozilla Corp. MozCorp is who develop Firefox, the Foundation focuses more on political activism. If you want to help fund the people developing Firefox, one of the Corporation's paid products is the place to send your money.

[pmurt7]

Why is Mozilla Foundation doing political activism? Is it just some money-grabbing scheme or what?

Mitchell Baker's blog:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/author/mitchellmozillacom/

Not a single word about Firefox, just some far-left propaganda about racial justice, empowered women in tech, Trump bad, and so.

[e-v]

I am not sure I want to know about your political opinions if you consider Mitchell as being "far-left" (not that I'm a great fan of hers). That is certainly not what the far left is, neither historically nor in the contemporary world.

[coldpie]

> Why is Mozilla Foundation doing political activism?

At least partly because people like me pay them to. I like the work the Moz foundation does and I'm happy to contribute to it with donations.

[gordian-mind]

Sadly, it's out of (misguided) convictions...

[jozzy-james]

ah yes, the coronavirus...the thing that made everybody not use the internet

[zionic]

FWIW, I had been using Firefox since it was called “Mozilla” and I switched to Brave last year. Firefox under her “leadership” is a disaster.

[bodge5000]

"...That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

Can anyone explain what this actually means? It sounds like she's saying that taking a lower pay by 5x is too much to ask of her, but then "people and their families" doesn't make any sense, because its 1 person and 1 family.

Thats not even getting into how true is may or may not be, or how its still a lot of money overall, even if its not compared to the market overall.

[Whitespace]

I read it as, "that's too big a discount to ask [qualified CEO candidates] and their families to commit to."

In other words: good luck finding a qualified person to run Mozilla.

[soundnote]

It's ironic that they had one and ousted him.

[bodge5000]

ohhh that makes a lot more sense actually, cheers

[coldpie]

How much do CEOs at similarly sized tech corporations get paid? It's fine to say you dislike the current CEO's performance, but I don't see how her compensation is relevant without other datapoints to compare to.

[Graffur]

Based on this I will start using Brave.. at least it's the devil you know