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dman ◴[] No.22058629[source]
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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malachismith ◴[] No.22059122[source]
To be clear... this charts the comp of ONE person at Mozilla (the Board Chair - and now interim CEO).
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bscphil ◴[] No.22060036[source]
I think your point is the most important one. This is not "Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share" as Eich says. This appears to be a misleading graph of how much one guy has been paid. His salary went way up in 2016, unsurprisingly (shortly after Eich was fired), and Firefox has continued its downward slide from when Eich was there.
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BrendanEich ◴[] No.22060397[source]
Read more carefully:

1. The increase was in 2017, reported per IRS regs in Mozilla Foundation's Form 990 filing (which must list all comp to board members even if they work for the for-profit Mozilla Corporation subsidiary).

2. The "one guy" is Mitchell Baker, and she is chair of both foundation and corporation boards.

But nice try attempting to pin blame on market share slide these last almost six years on me.

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bscphil ◴[] No.22060707[source]
In your Twitter thread you claimed it was a "chart for top job" at Mozilla. Will you now say that was false, that Baker was not the highest paid employee for the duration of that chart?
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1. BrendanEich ◴[] No.22060757[source]
Don't be dense or try "gotcha" games with me: Mitchell is chair of both boards, hirer and firer of CEOs, she has the top job. I'm told Mitchell is now acting CEO too, so: hat trick!

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/