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2023 $653M That's almost all Google money. CEO's largest accomplishment since 2007 was to put Mozilla on the brink of shutting down anytime Google's mone
by hu3 2y ago
2023 $653M
That's almost all Google money.
CEO's largest accomplishment since 2007 was to put Mozilla on the brink of shutting down anytime Google's money stops flowing in.
- culi 2y agoFWIW, in 2022 it was about 86.00% of their revenue while in 2023 it was 75.79%. That's a massive difference. Their revenue grew by $60m while the amount of money they got from Google decreased (by ~$15m). Things do seem to be going in the desired direction EDIT: some more history 2023: 75.8 2022: 86.0 2021: 87.8 2020: 88.8 2019: [^a] 2018: 95.3 2017: 95.9 [^a]: this was a weird year where their "other" income got a massive one-time boost. I'm not sure what happened. Did they get a $338m grant? If you take that number out the percentage is around 91%
- boomboomsubban 2y ago>Did they get a $338m grant? That was the year their lawsuit with Verizon finished and they got paid their remaining due for the Yahoo search deal. Related, I think most their money from 2017 also came from Yahoo.
- cmcaleer 2y agoImagine if a competent CEO had been at the wheel. Instead of spending quite literally billions on who knows what (certainly not a significantly better, more competitive Firefox), Mozilla could have instead transitioned to an endowed foundation model and built a sustainable, long-term future that could weather a scenario like today’s DOJ case which was not impossible to foresee (US v. Microsoft was in 2001 after all).
- rwmj 2y agoThey were competently directing that money into their bank accounts.
- cursor_it_all 2y ago> They were competently directing that money into their bank accounts. And selling user data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209768