She completely and utterly failed at her duties as the organization's leader. That over inflated compensation package that's seemingly inversely-correlated with firefox's userbase and the number of technical roles at Mozilla is most certainly not "earned".

I'd personally call it embezzlement or misappropriation of funds, but that's just me.

Haven’t heard about that, but even Safari is kicking their ass on desktop market share. I just visited the Firefox download page. It looks like shit. Something’s not going right over there.

Or it's that she's taking Mozilla down paths that lead to Chrome dominance in the future, while getting paid a hefty sum that would be better spent funding Firefox development.

As far as I know, the Mozilla Corporation is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is a non-profit with the mission to make the internet a better place, or something along those lines. So shouldn't we look at the boards of things like the Wikimedia Foundation or the Internet Archive instead of bay area CEOs for comparison?

It's also not a particularly good look when your own salary keeps rising while you're laying people off and market share keeps plummeting (in my neck of the woods, Firefox actually used to be domminant at 60%+)...

That said, I haven't looked at this in any kind of detail, and all I know of Baker is what her Wikipedia article tells me, which includes writing the Mozilla Public License, managing mozilla.org on a volunteer basis for a while and being instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation.

> So shouldn't we look at the boards of things like the Wikimedia Foundation or the Internet Archive instead of bay area CEOs for comparison?

Sure, let's do that. Here's the highest paid employee of all three in 2021 (as that's the last year where there's data on all three):

Internet Archive: $158,777 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...)

Wikimedia Foundation: $406,339 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...)

Mozilla Foundation: $337,714 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...)

I wouldn't classify any of those salaries as exorbitantly large. Hell, I'm fairly certain at least some people shitting on them here earn more than that a for-profit.

To Mitchell's credit, and something that almost never gets talked about, she also managed to extract a lot of money from Yahoo based on the terms of the search deal they signed, but a substantial part of that was self-inflicted by Yahoo—and whether Mozilla should have sold users out to Yahoo to begin with is, of course, another question (to which the answer is "no").