Submitted 9 months ago by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozilla-laura-chambers-expanded-role/
Mitchelle Baker, CEO of Mozilla since 2020, will transition back to executive chairwoman role. Baker had been executive chairwoman for several decades. Board member Laura Chambers is taking over as interim CEO. Second source; The Verge
I guess an annual salary of one hundred trillion dollars, or however ridiculously much it was, wasn’t enough for her.
doubt she’ll get any more from stepping down… but yeah it’s ridiculous how much some of these CEOs think they need. Especially in a company that is supposed to be better…
I know, my comment didn’t make a lot of sense; her salary just triggered me tremendously the first time I heard what it was. This seemed like as good a place as any to express my disgust.
Especially when you compare to Japanese CEO
CEO pay is so ridiculous, there’s obviously no way they’re going to self regulate so we need to either tie it to worker pay/well-being or put it under the control of their employees
Well, technically, CEOs don’t pick their own salaries, they are decided by the board, and so, indirectly by the shareholders. Then again, she is also a board member, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Salaries of non-profits are public information. See page 8.
She was taking $5.6M from “related organizations” (not quite sure what that would be), but not much from the Mozilla Foundation itself. The rest of the board is taking $115k-$340k directly from the Foundation.
Those are insane amounts to me, in a non-profit. Non-profit sounds meaningless when considering certain people within the organization are making $340k off of donated money. It’s a mockery of the term in my opinion.
$5.6M is just on a whole separate level though. Speechless.
I assume that on the IRS returns form for Mozilla Foundation, the “related organization” that the CEO of Mozilla Corporation gets 5+ million from is probably Mozilla Corporation. But I don’t know.
First good news from Mozilla since at least a couple of years.
This feels like shuffling deck chairs on the titanic.
A board member and the CEO swap roles…
Thank the gods.
Why
She presided over a massively shrinking market share of Firefox, adding proprietary bloat like pocket, wasted huge amounts of effort on weird shit like Mozilla’s own half baked metaverse, while quadrupling her own salary. The kind of stuff you expect from a lawyer.
The entire board needs to be replaced with people that actually know how to program.
I don’t know how Mitchelle Baker was so I won’t comment on her performance, but I hope this change of direction will lead Mozilla to a brighter future, and a more privacy-focused web for all of us.
Back to the chairman role. She hasn’t lost an ounce of power.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Rooting for a Firefox focused 2024! 🦊
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I read few weeks ago that firefox wasn’t the priority anymore, but the services.