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I depends on what kind of company you are what and who you need. That may be the problem with Mozilla that they don't really know what they are. They started ou
by this_user 1y ago
I depends on what kind of company you are what and who you need. That may be the problem with Mozilla that they don't really know what they are. They started out as a vehicle for the browser, but then they broadened their mission to some vague notion of "defending the open Internet" or something like that. And since they had enough free cash flow, they were able to get into all kinds of areas and projects where they had no real expertise and set themselves up to fail.
And this is a common management mistake: "We have the money, we need to grow." Meta have basically been doing that for years now, launching all kinds of projects that were mostly failures. But their ad income from FB and IG is more than enough to compensate for that. Google are in a similar position. When was the last time they actually launched a truly successful new product?
Maybe it would be better to let it be. In the case of Mozilla, focus on Firefox on all of the different platforms. On the other hand, not trying to grow is a career risk for management. If you are not implementing a growth strategy, why exactly are we paying you millions per year?