$9.5M one time is too little, but you could def get by with funding a competitive Firefox-level product on a budget of $25–30M annually if you ran lean enough a

$9.5M one time is too little, but you could def get by with funding a competitive Firefox-level product on a budget of $25–30M annually if you ran lean enough and (counter-intuitively) paid high programmer salaries. Pay slightly higher than experienced Googlers make and move the business out of the Bay Area.