Exclusive: Mozilla names new CEO as it doubles down on data privacy
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Laura Chambers will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found.

Mozilla Corp., which manages the open-source Firefox browser, announced today that Mitchell Baker is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI and internet safety as chair of the nonprofit foundation. Laura Chambers, a Mozilla board member and entrepreneur with experience at Airbnb, PayPal, and eBay, will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found.

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  • ferralcat@monyet.cc
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    9 months ago

    Reading this new CEOs job history on linkedin is kinda infuriating. She goes from intern to head of consumer products at Skype in less than a year. Just… Frustrating to read that while I am and manage really good people who struggle for decades in the trenches to get even paltry job opportunities.

    But she got her MBA from Stanford so nepotism ahoy I guess.

    • Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      How is getting an MBA from Stanford nepotism? She probably worked her ass off not only to earn the degree but to be accepted to the university in the first place. Without knowing anything about her, I’m going to assume she’s a total rockstar until there’s a good reason to believe otherwise.

        • Snapz@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Biggest predictor of future success is the zip code you’re born into.

          To your specific point, the preponderance of PERCEIVED hard work in the nepotism community is definitely worth mentioning. Hard work, as an objective measure, would be the exception in this camp.

        • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          okay but still where is the nepotism? You’ve commented on the general hypothetical possibility of nepotism not having been dis-proven.

          Being at Stanford in and of itself is not nepotism so it’s a pretty fair question to those of us who want words to mean things.