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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 4 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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petagonoral ◴[15 Jan 20 21:03 UTC] No.22058534[source]▶
in 2018, mozilla had 368 million USD in assets:

2018 financials: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-fdn-201...

wow, 2.5 million for the executive chair of Mozilla in 2018. is that person really bringing 2.5 millions dollar worth of value to the company. this is in addition to the 2.x million from the year before. 10s of million exfiltrated out of a non-profit by one person over the last few years. nice job if you can get it.

edit: 1 million USD in 2016 and before.jumped to 2.3 million in 2017! pg8 of form 990 available at https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/about/public-records/

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1. vondur ◴[15 Jan 20 21:19 UTC] No.22058731[source]▶
What I don't understand is why they chose a lawyer to run a software development company.
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2. jonathankoren ◴[15 Jan 20 21:27 UTC] No.22058851[source]▶
Mitchell has been influential in Netscape and Mozilla since the beginning. Also, Mozilla isn’t just a software company. It’s also an technology and public policy advocacy organization.
3. bduerst ◴[15 Jan 20 21:29 UTC] No.22058876[source]▶
An open-source software development company, which is influential on web standards.
4. C14L ◴[16 Jan 20 00:12 UTC] No.22060351[source]▶
From what I read in this thread, it sounds more like she's a political activist.