Brendan Eich

https://brendaneich.com/

Last activity: 01.06.2022

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Co-founder & CEO

@Brave Software (https://brave.com) and

@attentiontoken (https://basicattentiontoken.org). Co-founded Mozilla & Firefox. Created JavaScript.

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Employees

11-50

Total raised

$35M

Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 27

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Jun 29, 2015	Неделя за 10 ссылок: депрессия и рефакторинг 1. Как продают/покупают ИТ-бизнесы в РБ 2. И один в ПВТ-поле воин 3. Антиприватная рулетка 4. Битрикс в Беларуси, как дела? 5. Новый Web 3.0 6. Программисты и депрессия 7. Сборник в меру смешных атак хакеров 8. Чудак, который делал всё не так ......	Anonymous 29 июня 2015, 07:10 Неделя за 10 ссылок: депрессия и рефакторинг Оставить комментарий
Jun 22, 2015	What Mozilla’s WebAssembly Means: More Powerful Web Apps	Competing browser makers, led by Mozilla’s Firefox engineers, made a surprising revelation last week: They’ve been secretly working on a joint project that could vault the Web into its next stage of evolution. “I’m happy to report that we a...
Jun 17, 2015	Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web	Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web. The web thrives on standards and, for better or w...
Jul 28, 2014	Mozilla confirms interim CEO as new top hire	Mozilla in Europe reader comments 159 with 42 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit On Monday, the Mozilla Corporation announced that its last-minute April hire for interim CEO, Chris Bear...
May 14, 2014	Mozilla Relents, Says It Will Implement HTML5 DRM Solution In Firefox	Mozilla today announced that it will reluctantly implement the HTML5 DRM standard in its Firefox browser. With more and more copyrighted content being streamed over the Internet, rights holders have long been worried that there is no standa...
Apr 14, 2014	Mozilla’s Chief Marketing Exec Is Modeling For Apple (Updated)	While Mozilla is recovering from the resignation of its co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich after the controversy over his support of Proposition 8, here is a bizarre twist to the PR knife: Mozilla’s CMO Pete Scanlon appears in photographs on A...
Apr 5, 2014	Brendan Eich resigning from Mozilla shows both the good and bad sides of the web	It has been mere days since Brendan Eich stepped down as CEO of Mozilla. It was one of the shortest-lived tenures in history, but it didn’t have to be that way. I’ll spare you the details -- they have spewed across the internet, ad-nauseum....
Apr 2, 2014	The public trial of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich (interview)	Update 4/3/2014: Brendan Eich has resigned as CEO of Mozilla. I’m a gay San Francisco journalist. I’m sitting across a video chat window from a straight father of five, someone who’s been linked to anti-gay activism. It would be difficult t...
Apr 2, 2014	Mozilla CEO calls for inclusiveness-for himself	New CEO Eich has been under fire since news of his Prop 8 support came out New Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has had a not so warm reception over the last week since word got out of his $1000 donation to the Prop 8 campaign—the measure that atte...
Apr 1, 2014	OkCupid Asks Users to Boycott Firefox to Protest Mozilla CEO	OkCupid is taking a bold stance against Mozilla’s controversial new CEO, Brendan Eich, who made donations in support of California’s anti-gay marriage legislation, Proposition 8, back in 2008. As TechCruch reported, visitors who use Firefox...
Mar 28, 2014	Mozilla’s bad week: Employees call for CEO Eich to step down, 3 board members leave	Mozilla is not having a good Friday, unlike the rest of us. Since the announcement a few days ago of Brendan Eich’s appointment as chief executive, protests over his “anti-gay” views have been simmering, and they came to a head this morning...
Mar 28, 2014	After Supporting Prop 8, New CEO Brendan Eich Comes Under Fire From Mozilla Employees	Mozilla employees across the web are calling for the removal of new CEO Brendan Eich, who previously held the position of CTO and has been with the company since its formation out of Netscape in the 90’s. In 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to sup...
Mar 26, 2014	New Mozilla CEO issues statement, expresses “sorrow for causing pain”	Jon Brodkin reader comments 505 with 108 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Following widespread criticism over his donations to pass California's Proposition 8 in 2008, new Mozilla Fou...
Mar 25, 2014	Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire [Updated]	reader comments 1296 with 231 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Yesterday, after nearly a year of searching, the Mozilla Foundation announced the hiring of longtime CTO Brendan Eich as...
Mar 24, 2014	Mozilla Appoints JavaScript Creator Brendan Eich As Its New CEO	Last April, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was stepping down as the organization’s CEO and that it would start looking for a replacement. At the time, Jay Sullivan took over as acting CEO in the midst of a number of leadership changes a...
Mar 24, 2014	Javascript creator Brendan Eich steps up as Mozilla’s new CEO	Yoorah! Mozilla has finally appointed a new chief executive, and it’s none other than JavaScript creator Brendan Eich. Since its then-leader Gary Kovacs announced his departure in April 2013, the company has been looking for a new chief exe...
Jun 24, 2013	Do Not Track standards do not coalesce	The advertising industry is in a huff over Mozilla’s plans to support "The Cookie Clearinghouse" at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School. The Cookie Clearinghouse starts with some browser behavior chang...
Jun 20, 2013	Stanford, Mozilla, Opera team up to tackle cookie privacy issues	reader comments 40 with 29 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit For the past few months, Firefox alphas have been heuristically blocking certain cookies in a bid to protect user privacy a...
May 17, 2013	Mozilla delays turning on third-party cookie killer in Firefox	Greg Putrich reader comments 45 with 33 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit With Firefox 22 now in beta Mozilla has decided not to enable its new third-party cookie-blocking feature by d...
May 6, 2013	Are video codecs written in JavaScript really the future?	reader comments 124 with 53 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Describing it as "the future," Mozilla has been showing off ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to the ind...
Feb 15, 2013	Why Mozilla Matters And Won’t Switch To WebKit	Earlier this week, Opera announced that it would stop working on its own Presto layout engine and switch to WebKit. It’s obvious that the open source WebKit engine currently has a lot of momentum behind it, with Google, Apple and now Opera ...
Oct 1, 2012	Microsoft Previews New JavaScript-Like Programming Language TypeScript	Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The source code is licensed under Apache 2.0 and can be fo...
Sep 13, 2012	Dropbox Rewrote Its Entire Browser-Side Codebase In 1 Week	The engineering team at Dropbox re-wrote its browser-side codebase one week last July, according to a post on the Dropbox tech blog. The rewrite was done to translate all of its JavaScript into a language called CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript i...
Mar 19, 2012	Mozilla: Firefox needs H.264 support to survive shift to mobile	Image courtesy of Brendan Eich reader comments 63 with 38 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Mozilla began an internal discussion last week about whether to impl...
Jul 22, 2011	JavaScript Creator Says the Language Wasn’t Just Dumb Luck	JavaScript creator Brendan Eich has spoken out against the perception that JavaScript was an arbitrary or random success. In a comment at Hacker News Eich explains the historical context from which JavaScript emerged and how it was unlikely...
May 6, 2011	Developers: The Future of JavaScript Is in Your Hands	A few different themes emerged over the course of the JSConf this week: that JavaScript is growing up, the need for a JavaScript core, the value of modules over frameworks and the continued debate over native apps vs. Web apps. But the most...

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FAQ about Brendan Eich

How much funding has Brendan Eich raised?

Brendan Eich has raised $35M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Brendan Eich?

Parsers VC has collected 27 articles mentioning Brendan Eich, among them “Неделя за 10 ссылок: депрессия и рефакторинг 1. Как продают/покупают ИТ-бизнесы в РБ 2. И один в ПВТ-поле воин 3. Антиприватная рулетка 4. Битрикс в Беларуси...” (Jun 29, 2015) and “What Mozilla’s WebAssembly Means: More Powerful Web Apps” (Jun 22, 2015).

Is Brendan Eich still active?

Yes, Brendan Eich is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 1, 2022.