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Re:A Quarter Century of Mozilla by callahad on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:31PM (#35390288)
...but we've actually explored that counterfactual: Brendan founded Brave. And while Brave has certainly enjoyed modest success, I don't see anything to suggest that Brendan staying at Mozilla would have staunched or reversed the bleeding.
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Re:A Quarter Century of Mozilla by inglor_cz on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:37PM (#35390375)
Isn't starting a brand new product line on an already full market a very different task from managing an existing product with a lot of legacy users and a famous name?

For an analogy: Tim Cook is a great manager for Apple, but I don't believe he would be a great founder of something similarly big on the contemporary smartphone market.

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