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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Mozilla comes up on Acquired, the a16z Podcast, Latent Space, the MAD Podcast, Big Technology
The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- ▶ 32:02 Alex Kantrowitz In a post published on Thursday, Mozilla said Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high security bugs, including some that had lain dormant in the code for more than a decade. 3 times in the scene
His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 23:19 Ranjan Roy Um, it's, it's, I think I was one of the founders of Mozilla initially, but anyway, they, uh, released this whole research where they actually went out and they created the, what they're called prompt injections, and the idea is you're an…
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 59:20 Amjad Masad And it took a breakthrough at the time, um, Mozilla had a resource project called mscripten that allowed you to, uh, compile different, uh, program languages like C, C++ into JavaScript.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:19 David Rosenthal Mozilla was the nonprofit organization that was founded and spun off from Netscape when AOL bought Netscape.
- ▶ 1:58:37 David Rosenthal But then once Firefox actually gets released by Mozilla and deployed out there,
- ▶ 1:58:44 David Rosenthal The way Google starts supporting Mozilla and Firefox is through paying traffic acquisition costs to them to be the default search in the Firefox browser.
- ▶ 1:59:02 David Rosenthal Firefox is where this all starts with Mozilla.
- ▶ 1:59:04 Ben Gilbert Actually, traffic acquisition costs originated before Mozilla because it's effectively the same thing that they were doing with software vendors to include Google Toolbar.
- ▶ 1:59:34 Ben Gilbert But yes, Google has a long history of paying for distribution of their search engine and the new form that it is now taking is the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- ▶ 1:59:59 David Rosenthal So, a couple years, Google's paying Mozilla for default search in Firefox, basically funding Mozilla.
- ▶ 2:00:15 David Rosenthal Firefox engineers at Mozilla to come and work at Google directly, but they position this as like, essentially this is the same thing.
- ▶ 2:00:23 David Rosenthal We are still funding Mozilla and Firefox, just like, you know, you're Mozilla, you can't give these employees, these engineers stock options, like you're a nonprofit.
- ▶ 2:00:50 David Rosenthal This team that comes over from Mozilla into Google becomes the core of a new, quote, product client group within Google.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:45:22 Ben Gilbert They famously did a deal to become the default search engine in Firefox just as it was becoming popular, which served as Mozilla's main revenue source for decades.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 43:00 Bret Taylor So I just give that as an example because, so Rust, at least my understanding is it came out of the Mozilla team because there's lots of security vulnerabilities in the browser and it needs to be really fast.
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 4:39 Amjad Masad Uh, we used a library from Mozilla. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- ▶ 7:11 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, you have groups from Mozilla, that's their only job.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 1:41:31 unnamed speaker You'd have to look at like Mozilla and some of these other big, big browsers and be like, well, what is this actually worth?
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- ▶ 27:03 unnamed speaker I think that, like, it's basically the second act of Mozilla, like, a lot of good with the open source browser, and, uh, obviously then they have since declined because, uh, it's, it's very hard to keep up in, in that field, and Mozilla… 2 times in the scene
How To Hire AI Engineers (ft. James Brady and Adam Wiggins of Elicit)
- ▶ 5:21 unnamed speaker Um, I featured, uh, you know, I, I selected as one of my keynotes, Justine Tunney from Llamafile, uh, on working, working Llamafile in Mozilla, uh, because I think there's a lot of people interested in, in that stuff.
25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried)
- ▶ 52:52 Jason Fried Like 95, 96 is when like, you know, really Mozilla or Netscape kind of came out and really kind of made it happen.
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:06 Mike Schroepfer You know, when I was at Mozilla in, in 2006 to 2008, I get pitched to startups wanting to start browser companies, right?
He gave up on chasing unicorns. Now he earns $500K+/year from his 3-person startup. | Rand Fishki... · PMF Show
- ▶ 9:00 Rand Fishkin Yeah, Mozilla was one of them as well. 2 times in the scene
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 52:39 unnamed speaker Mozilla came out with a llama file, and then, um, I don't know if this is in the same category even, but I'm just gonna throw it in there, like Hugging Face has the Transformers and Diffuses library, which is a way of disseminating models…
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 1:11:37 Shawn Wang There's PyTSX, Koki used to be Mozilla, and then, uh, Larynx.
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:02 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, you look at, I, I wonder if you can look at like the Amazon, sorry, the Mozilla Google deal or the Google Apple deal or some of the publisher contracts or, um, even like distribution agreements across media companies today.
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
How to Engineer Serendipity | Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
- ▶ 34:30 Matt Mullenweg Mozilla or all these sorts of things.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14 Ben Gilbert He holds the credential of inventing JavaScript, a source of much joy and also much pain for many of you out there, and Brendan was the chief architect of Netscape and eventually became the CEO of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox.
- ▶ 18:31 David Rosenthal You go in the Mozilla direction.
- ▶ 21:36 Ben Gilbert Okay, so we're now at this point where you're on your own with Mozilla.
- ▶ 23:08 Brendan Eich And Mozilla had to figure out, are we doing a suite?
- ▶ 23:26 Brendan Eich Uh, they started wondering what they bought and why, and so for the first two years, I think, 99 and 2000, the head of Netscape division was decapitated, and somebody I liked, a nice guy I mentioned, took their place, but it didn't go well…
- ▶ 23:42 Brendan Eich It meant Mozilla was considered the enemy because most of the employees initially were the contributors, and it was rare to find outside contributors.
- ▶ 25:05 Brendan Eich And so we started growing Mozilla even before Firefox in a way that I think
- ▶ 25:47 Brendan Eich And Ted said, hey, Mitch, I've got this thing, Mozilla, I don't know what to do with.
- ▶ 26:06 Brendan Eich because they didn't like Mozilla
- ▶ 26:19 Brendan Eich And yet, the next week on the Mozilla community call, there was Mitchell doing the governance leadership.
- ▶ 26:32 Brendan Eich Kill Mozilla.
- ▶ 26:44 Brendan Eich And Mitch had hired Mitchell Baker, who'd been the Mozilla manager from about eight months into the founding up till she was laid off.
- ▶ 27:04 Brendan Eich Ted did the right thing and gave us two million over two years to spin out the Mozilla project.
- ▶ 28:20 Brendan Eich Dave Hyatt and I wrote the roadmap update for Mozilla in
- ▶ 28:39 Brendan Eich And that roadmap you can still find even on Mozilla.
- ▶ 36:56 Brendan Eich Mozilla did not
- ▶ 37:22 Ben Gilbert Because, of course, the vast majority of Mozilla's revenue comes from the Google search deal to use Google as the default and get paid hundreds of millions of dollars from Google.
- ▶ 37:30 Brendan Eich Yeah, it really was the one big trick for funding Mozilla, and it was, you know, good while it lasted, but it also foretold Google doing its own browser, right?
- ▶ 38:01 Brendan Eich Let's make our own little mini Mozilla.
- ▶ 38:32 Brendan Eich And some of the people I've worked with at AOL or at Mozilla were working on the prototype.
- ▶ 41:08 Brendan Eich When I was thinking about Brave, I realized not only had Mozilla become captured by its search partner and was probably going to die because it couldn't compete, not just on Chrome intrinsic qualities, but on distribution, which really…
- ▶ 41:52 Brendan Eich Mozilla doesn't have the resources to do this.
- ▶ 42:01 Brendan Eich They might've done a little growth hacking.
- ▶ 42:03 Brendan Eich So, and they never got big on mobile.
- ▶ 1:01:11 Brendan Eich We use the Electron framework when we switched from a private version based on Mozilla's Gecko engine to Chromium Blink, and using Electron was a mistake.
- ▶ 1:02:42 Brendan Eich I knew how to do 10 people out of AOL with the Netscape Mozilla codebase because I'd worked on that codebase with hundreds of engineers at
- ▶ 1:03:02 Brendan Eich And even though we, we had to shrink the workforce, but it was bigger than the 10 people I had at Mozilla in 2003 when we spun out.
- ▶ 1:03:21 Brendan Eich And we did start with, with Mozilla Gecko in a multiprocess sandboxed, uh, framework called Graphene that was part of Firefox OS, which I'd worked on, but it just lost on this big spreadsheet we did where we just scored it against Chromium…
- ▶ 1:04:07 Brendan Eich Gecko was never big on mobile because Mozilla was never big on mobile.
- ▶ 1:16:10 Brendan Eich You'll get all these phishing support accounts pretending to be your buddy, impersonating my friend David Walsh, who was at Mozilla and now is at MetaMask.
A Breakdown of Trendy New Businesses & Boring 9 Figure Businesses | My First Million #202
- ▶ 10:13 Shaan Puri He's the creator of Mozilla, the browser.
4 Big Trends and $0 to $1 Billion Startup Idea Frameworks | My First Million #191
- ▶ 52:06 Mike Maples It's just like, you know, like when, when Andreessen did Mozilla, it was just, he was the perfect person in the world at the perfect time to do that idea.
Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- ▶ 46:44 Nikhil Kapur A short sort of internship I did back in my college days with Mozilla, um,
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 15:09 Dylan Field He's the guy that was CEO of Mozilla, deeply technical, deeply product-oriented, and just
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 6:21 Frank Chen Called Mozilla, I guess, right? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 16:17 Stina Ehrensvärd Mozilla is coming on board.
a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- ▶ 1:24 Sonal Chokshi So if you're like a Chrome user, for example, or a Firefox Mozilla user, you're more likely to be along those lines than not.
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 3:39 Stuart Butterfield Mozilla is a giant network of IRC channels.
A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 12:17 Zach Sherman Um, we use a bunch of different off-the-shelf Lua parsers, um, from a few different Mozilla projects that let us parse syslog and
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Thrilled to welcome Steve Vassalo, general partner at Foundation Capital, where he sits or has sat on the boards of the likes of Pocket, acquired by Mozilla, Private Core, acquired by Facebook, Sunrun, Sentient Energy, and many more.
Using AI to Predict the Performance of Text // Kieran Snyder, Textio (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 19:49 Kieran Snyder Mozilla job listings, we often see something that's effective are people talking a lot about open source and commitment to the open source community, so there's often specifics of company culture that come in, so our best feedback loop…
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 44:38 Jason Calacanis I mean, it exists as Mozilla, maybe, but, you know, sometimes the first person who, you know, goes up the hill gets all the arrows and dies, um,
Jake Porway, DataKind // Data For The Greater Good (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 10:00 Jake Porway So a team from IBM and Mozilla basically built a classification algorithm that would find the different roof types.