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Is their CEO comp not in line with the market?

No. More than 80% of Mozilla Corp's income is a yearly payment from Google. [0]

The payment will stop immediately if Google thinks it's no longer needed, or if federal prosecutors (who have determined this payment is illegal) decide the remedy is to stop the payment. [1]

The CEO's job is simple. Say "I think we should take Google's money again this year", and then pocket several million of it. Ca-ching! What are your plans for post-Google-money? Uh uh... AI? Sell out our users to advertisers? [2] It's not looking good.

The Firefox market share continues to dwindle. The board continues to hob-nob with San Francisco socialites and "activists" and use Mozilla as a piggybank to fund their chums. [edit: removed line about Mitchell Baker as she does seem to have finally left]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/google-lo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909

> Mitchell Baker did not leave the gravy train by stepping down as CEO, she merely moved to a different seat on the gravy train - chair of the Mozilla Foundation

Mitchell has not been a member of the Mozilla Foundation or Mozilla Corporation boards since February 2025.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...

Thanks for noting that, I hadn't realised. I've edited out that line.

Are Mozilla's earning in line with the market?

That's a bad rubric to judge by, in this case. CEO pay is at a historic high, in fact I'm pretty sure the last time the gap in wage between median workers and CEOs was this high was the roaring 20's, which famously went quite well for the economy.

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