3 ms·
I've been saying for years that Mozilla should have a services department to do consulting and corporate support for Rust. No idea why they'd leave millions of
by joshlemer 6y ago
I've been saying for years that Mozilla should have a services department to do consulting and corporate support for Rust. No idea why they'd leave millions of dollars on the floor like that.
- khuey 6y agoMozilla's revenue is $400M a year. A few million dollars in consulting revenue isn't going to move the needle.
- toast0 6y agoConsulting would offer an avenue for growth. If you do well, you can hire more people and make more revenue. Both of Mozilla's likely search revenue partners in the US are also competitors and both use anti-competitive means to push their own browsers. Building their own search revenue stream isn't going to happen on $400M annually. And I don't think Yandex or Baidu are planning to seriously address the US market. Also, I could be wrong, but I thought ad spending was way down this year.
- joshlemer 6y agoWe're talking 10s of millions here. Plenty of consultancies make 20million+ per year in revenue. It could even be the start of a new branch with value adds like Confluent, Databricks, which are more in the range of $150-200million.
- coldtea 6y ago>Mozilla's revenue is $400M a year. And it can easily drop to $0M a year. Meanwhile, a good consulting can grow to tens of millions, and even be acquired by a company like MS, etc.
- zelly 6y agoI've said on here for years that Mozilla will only be remembered for Rust and they should double down on that (to the exclusion of FF if necessary) and people got mad. It's their only product people are enthusiastic about, the only product of theirs that has a positive slope on Google Trends. They could have been what JetBrains is to Kotlin. They could have sold support, training, consultantcy, IDEs, tooling, hosted conferences, etc.