[mozempthrowaway]

I think it’s a reminder of what Mitchell’s priorities were as CEO: lining her pockets and funneling money to her political projects.

She has deep ties at Google and after getting out of the Yahoo deal when Verizon bought them, she got a sweetheart deal from Google that was an 84% increase of revenue YoY. She then laid off 25% of the company that year. This last year she ran a budget surplus as she failed to hire as aggressively as we had planned to at the beginning of last year and she still cut 6% of the company (for reference we were behind more than 60 hires for the year which is the amount that was cut). Meanwhile she took a pay increase to 6.9M

[nozzlegear]

Has she said anywhere that those were her priorities, or is that just conjecture? People on HN seem to forget that she was the CEO of Mozilla, not Firefox LLC, and Mozilla’s goals have long been broader than just providing life support to a browser that continues to grow more irrelevant every year.

[mozempthrowaway]

I work at Mozilla, there is no Firefox LLC. Please don’t post stuff like this if you’re unfamiliar with the corporate structure.

There is Mozilla Corporation a for profit entity that is responsible for virtually all development of products under the Mozilla name. Then there is Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit that is the sole owner of Mozilla Corporation. Mitchell until stepping down as CEO a few weeks ago was both the chair of the foundation and the CEO of the corporation.

[nozzlegear]

> there is no Firefox LLC.

Yes, obviously, that’s the point I was making. She was responsible for more than just Firefox, but the only thing people here can focus on whenever her name comes up is… Firefox.

[squigz]

I'm just confused as to what this has to do with the content of the post

[TehCorwiz]

Market share go down, pay go up, can’t explain that.