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by boomboomsubban 1224 days ago
Revenue's pretty damn important, without the increase Firefox likely would have been dead years ago.

The management has hardly been flawless, but I don't know how to compete with opponents that have practically unlimited budgets with no expectation of being independently profitable, first IE then Chrome. Any move that isn't a grand slam will be viewed as a failure.
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krono 1223 days ago
Nicely worded. I suppose it's not as much that I believe she's doing a particularly bad job, but more that she's been moving Mozilla too far into the direction opposite from where I would have liked it to go, and where I believe it belongs.

I find her salary increases and their timing both unconscionable and excessive regardless.

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boomboomsubban 1223 days ago
If someone asked you "hey we want to promote you to permanent CEO. It'll be more work, you'll be forced to make unpopular decisions that will lead to rampant criticism, and we'll cut your salary" would you accept?
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krono 1222 days ago
That's not what happened here at all though. She has been a major controlling and accountable factor throughout both Mozilla entities' existence, except whenever those controversial or risky decisions were going to be executed she has repeatedly ensured there was someone else to take the accountability part - only to take it back later during better times.

  2003 Mozilla Foundation was founded
       - Mozilla Foundation President
       - Mozilla Foundation Chairperson
  2005 Mozilla Corporation was founded
       - Mozilla Foundation President
       - Mozilla Foundation Chairperson
       - Mozilla Corporation CEO
       - Mozilla Corporation Executive Chairperson
  2007 Firefox/Google privacy controversy[0]
  2008 She stepped down from several roles
       - Mozilla Foundation Chairperson
       - Mozilla Corporation Executive Chairperson
  2014 Half the board resigned in protest of newly elected CEO[1]
  2019 Settled out of court with Yahoo on the issue of Mozilla's nasty opportunistic rug-pull stunt[1]
  2018 Market share had dropped by 85% since 2008
       She received a 400% salary rise for her role as Foundation Chair
       - Mozilla Foundation Chairperson
       - Mozilla Corporation Executive Chairperson
  2020 She stepped back in as Mozilla Corporation CEO
       - Mozilla Foundation Chairperson
       - Mozilla Corporation CEO
       - Mozilla Corporation Executive Chairperson
And since then they've become even more dependent on search engine donations than ever before. Quite risky considering Google's current predicament.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20070121123429/http://www.platin...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140330185556/http://blogs.wsj....

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221130031213/https://www.compu...

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boomboomsubban 1222 days ago
Yes she has always been an executive, I'm not denying that. Becoming the CEO in spring 2020 was hardly a desirable position to take.

>she has repeatedly ensured there was someone else to take the accountability part - only to take it back later during better times

This seems unfair. She was always an executive. She seemed to step down after 0, though I'm not sure if they're related events. She took some of the accountability for 1. And 2 is a windfall that she gets very little credit for, you yourself dismissed any revenue gains as part of her accomplishments.

>Quite risky considering Google's current predicament.

The search deal is how Mozilla has been funded for at least fifteen years. Maybe that decision will someday bite them, but it's gotten them billions to build Firefox in that time.

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