If these numbers sound high ... $1M today was $500K in 1996.
Yeah, at successful high performing trillion dolar tech companies like Nvidia or Apple, not broke*ss underperforming companies like Mozilla.
>6M for a CEO doesn't sound unreasonable.
It's unreasonable when you take into account Mozilla's lack of performance over the years. Where is their success, other than being kept on life support by being bankrolled by Google who's doing it solely to avoid anti-trust litigations over their monopoly on the browser market.
In a way, this is actually harming Firefox, knowing that they'll always be funded no matter how their product performs, just so that Alphabet has a legal David to their Goliath, gives them little incentive to try to be competitive.
Huh what? I use Firefox and I'm actually very happy with it.
That's what what success means in this context: Something that makes that expense worthwhile.
Or they do some batshit insane "polyfill" nonsense that turns the <button> into 56 layers of nested divs behind the hood.
HTML hasn't caught up either, there's no <toggle_switch> that invokes the native toggle switch that every OS already has, devs are forced to mimic the toggle with 85 layers of nested divs.
I'm a happy user, I consider that a success in my book.
If anything, the board should have gotten rid of her at this point and hired someone else, even if at this higher salary it would make more sense than sticking with someone who obviously hasn't been leading the company to growth or sustainability (since they are trending downards).
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/mozilla/salaries/software-e...
Looks arround the $170-200k level....