• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s pretty clear they’re trying to fire him to due to not wanting to fire 50 developers.

    Mozilla is a for-profit corporation now, there isn’t room for products like Firefox that don’t make money.

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      4 months ago

      Mozilla is a for-profit corporation now, there isn’t room for products like Firefox that don’t make money.

      No, Mozilla is not for-profit now. Mozilla Corporation is a taxable subsidiary of non-profit Mozilla Foundation. That’s public knowledge.

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      4 months ago

      Am I missing something?

      Firefox is Mozilla’s most profitable product. Its millions of users enable Mozilla to make deals for sponsored content (e.g. shortcuts), integrations, and biggest of all: the default search option with Google.

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      4 months ago

      That’s a really good point. That’s a good test of an executive, if they can’t do what the board needs… They aren’t a good fit either

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        4 months ago

        if they can’t do what the board needs… They aren’t a good fit either

        But does the board need it, or just want it to maximize profits, like boards usually do in their typical chase of infinite growth that isn’t sustainable?

        And if the person won’t stick up for what they think is best for the company and the people (which they’ve deemed firing 50 people is that), maybe they’re not a good fit that way. But hey, they are sticking up for said company and 50 people, so maybe they are.

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          That’s a good point, and that’s what a long-term CEO could fight for. But this executive before they became CEO was given a test, could they do this difficult executive thing, and they didn’t. If you’re the board of directors, is this the person you promote to CEO? They’re already giving you friction before they become the CEO

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            4 months ago

            Come on be fair though. HE JUST got back from medical leave:

            On the day Teixeira returned to his job, it’s claimed, he was instructed to lead a company-wide layoff of 50 people, 40 of whom were in his MozProd organization.

            Pulling this shit on him the second he gets back reeks of retaliation or a desire to throw him under the bus.