[crowselect]

Mozilla revenue in 2014, the year eich was made ceo: $329.6M

Mozilla revenue in 2015, having “gone woke” and fired him: $421.3M

Go woke go earn 28% more, i guess?

[staticelf]

And.. where does the revenue come from?

Nearly all increase is from Google and their deal with them, a deal that was done before Brendan became CEO. So the revenue would increase no matter who became CEO.

[wave-function]

Not to throw this discussion on too long a tangent, but this honestly reads in exactly the same way as fawning comments about Putin "saving his country" by presiding over a period of record-high oil prices.

On the bright side, he and his cronies didn't steal absolutely everything, and some scraps made it to the rest of the population.

Mozilla's leadership is a cancer that will kill it, and will take the work of many good, talented technical people down the drain. IRL parallels abound.

[crowselect]

Listen, mozilla's got problems - we can agree on that, and you don't need to compare me to a putin apologist to make that point.

But "go woke go broke" is dumb sloganeering and plainly false. It's not a description of how the world works - it's a call to arms to boycott things labeled "woke". Sometimes things labeled "woke" do well because of their "wokeness", other times the anti-"woke" backlash kills them. Plenty of things "go woke" without ever being labeled "woke". Plenty of non-"woke" things go broke.

Either way, my only real point in citing revenue numbers is to point out that ten years after the whole Eich debacle, mozilla's still not broke. Seems like maybe their problems are unrelated to "wokeness".