

But there were difficulties, again, I can’t comment on, and it was important to be able to do the things that we’re doing at Brave without the constraints that I think Mozilla faced at the time. I can’t talk about that for a lot of reasons, but when I was at Mozilla, I was ultimately running engineering, over 430 people, I think, and stepped up to the opportunity when they couldn’t find a CEO candidate otherwise. It was pretty short, controversy caused you to step down. So, while I was doing Mozilla, I also realized, Mozilla was really dependent on Google for its revenue, and I thought, couldn’t we do something that put the user in the first position for controlling the revenue, getting the revenue, sending it to their favorite sites, and that’s why I created Brave.Īnd also, I just want to cycle back a little bit, there was a period where you did become CEO of Mozilla. It becomes a monopoly control point, and you end up with Microsoft in the ‘90s, or now I would say Google, first among many, Facebook also has a lot of power, taking over large parts of markets, and then using that power to conquer adjacent markets. Whenever you have networks, you can have people cluster around a service or a distribution channel like the PC’s operating system. And over the course of time, I realized that the monopoly position had changed who was playing the monopolist, but it was still a risk in the internet. They lost, and Netscape ejected Mozilla as sort of an escape pod, with just a couple of us on board, a small handful of people, and we persevered, and did Firefox, restarted the browser market. It got Microsoft’s attention in such a bad way that they crushed Netscape, and Microsoft ended up in an antitrust case. But I went there in 1995, created JavaScript in ten days because everybody was in a big hurry to do a deal with Sun to embed Java in Netscape and kill Windows, to quote Mark Andreessen, and that got Microsoft’s attention.
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I used to work on operating systems and network software, low-level software for Silicon Graphics back in its heyday in ’85 to ’92, and then I went to a company that was like a second grad school that you never heard of called MicroUnity, where I did a bunch of similar low-level software on amazing hardware, and then I went to Netscape a year after they invited me, which was my mistake. Tell us about your history prior to founding Brave. You’re famous for creating JavaScript and co-founding Mozilla. Today’s guest is Brendan Eich, CEO and president of Brave. Leading exchanges, virtual currency businesses, banks, and regulators themselves use CipherTrace to comply with regulation and to monitor compliance.

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