{"id":62582,"date":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2020\/01\/15\/readying-for-the-future-at-mozilla\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:27:02","slug":"readying-for-the-future-at-mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/readying-for-the-future-at-mozilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Readying for the Future at Mozilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla must do two things in this era: Continue to excel at our current work, while we innovate in the areas most likely to impact the state of the internet and internet life. From security and privacy network architecture to the surveillance economy, artificial intelligence, identity systems, control over our data, decentralized web and content discovery and disinformation &#8212; Mozilla has a critical role to play in helping to create product solutions that address the challenges in these spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Creating the new products we need to change the future requires us to do things differently, including allocating resources for this purpose. We\u2019re making a significant investment to fund innovation. In order to do that responsibly, we\u2019ve also had to make some difficult choices which led to the elimination of roles at Mozilla which we announced internally today.  <\/p>\n<p>Mozilla has a strong line of sight on future revenue generation from our core business. In some ways, this makes this action harder, and we are deeply distressed about the effect on our colleagues. However, to responsibly make additional investments in innovation to improve the internet, we can and must work within the limits of our core finances.<\/p>\n<p>We make these hard choices because online life must be better than it is today. We must improve the impact of today\u2019s technology. We must ensure that the tech of tomorrow is built in ways that respect people and their privacy, and give them real independence and meaningful control. Mozilla exists to meet these challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla must do two things in this era: Continue to excel at our current work, while we innovate in the areas most likely to impact the state of the internet and internet life. 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