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What were Chris Beard's qualifications to become CEO? Honestly curious.

by e15ctr0n 12y ago

JimmaDaRustla 12y ago
Not sure, but I wonder if someone will find something to disqualify him...
- jmccree 12y ago
  Interesting idea. A well funded competitor could astroturf a "DDOS" outrage attack and prevent a company/org from ever choosing/having a functional CEO.
  - dragonwriter 12y ago
    A functional CEO would remain so even in the face of an astroturfed outrage attack. Negative PR, including targeting persons rather than the company directly, isn't exactly a new feature of the business environment.
- JimmaDaRustla 12y ago
  I think HN might have an opinion conformity issue... "You can have any opinion you want, as long as it's ours."
  - JimmaDaRustla 12y ago
    Oh come on guys, not my internet points! I need those to prove my superiority when voicing our unanimous opinions.
mbrubeck 12y ago
He used to be a Linux kernel hacker. In 1998, he entered the business world by founding a consulting company around his kernel porting work. His company was acquired and he continued leading related work at the new owner (Linuxcare). From there he went on to various entrepreneurial and senior management jobs at technology companies including HP and Sun. Chris left Sun to join Mozilla almost ten years ago (October 2004), just before the release of Firefox 1.0, making him one of the first dozen or so employees. He stayed at Mozilla for nine years in a variety of roles. As CIO he founded and led Mozilla Labs, and later was the CMO until leaving last year to work in venture capital and then start another company. He returned to Mozilla as interim CEO after Brendan Eich stepped down several months ago. [Disclosure: I've been a Mozilla employee for the past 4.5 years.]
- caio1982 12y ago
  That's a nice summary. Actually your two paragraphs should be in their blog post about him :-)
- Natsu 12y ago
  I hope that more people read this, because it's the most useful comment in this entire story.

What were Chris Beard's qualifications to become CEO? Honestly curious.

JimmaDaRustla 12y ago

Not sure, but I wonder if someone will find something to disqualify him...

jmccree 12y ago
Interesting idea. A well funded competitor could astroturf a "DDOS" outrage attack and prevent a company/org from ever choosing/having a functional CEO.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  A functional CEO would remain so even in the face of an astroturfed outrage attack. Negative PR, including targeting persons rather than the company directly, isn't exactly a new feature of the business environment.
JimmaDaRustla 12y ago
I think HN might have an opinion conformity issue... "You can have any opinion you want, as long as it's ours."
- JimmaDaRustla 12y ago
  Oh come on guys, not my internet points! I need those to prove my superiority when voicing our unanimous opinions.

mbrubeck 12y ago

He used to be a Linux kernel hacker. In 1998, he entered the business world by founding a consulting company around his kernel porting work. His company was acquired and he continued leading related work at the new owner (Linuxcare). From there he went on to various entrepreneurial and senior management jobs at technology companies including HP and Sun. Chris left Sun to join Mozilla almost ten years ago (October 2004), just before the release of Firefox 1.0, making him one of the first dozen or so employees. He stayed at Mozilla for nine years in a variety of roles. As CIO he founded and led Mozilla Labs, and later was the CMO until leaving last year to work in venture capital and then start another company. He returned to Mozilla as interim CEO after Brendan Eich stepped down several months ago. [Disclosure: I've been a Mozilla employee for the past 4.5 years.]

caio1982 12y ago
That's a nice summary. Actually your two paragraphs should be in their blog post about him :-)
Natsu 12y ago
I hope that more people read this, because it's the most useful comment in this entire story.