[2023] Mozilla and Gary Vee fund cryptocurrency company Webacy
[2023] Mozilla and Gary Vee fund cryptocurrency company Webacy
Investors included entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk and Mozilla Ventures.
Gary Vee is a notorious grifter NFT salesman with a checkered past.
Webacy is a cryptocurrency wallet "technology layer" that "provides security features" like password backup, "digital wills", etc.
for fuck's sake mozilla
So we are doing AI and Crypto, but shutting down Mozilla.social?
Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool.
This article was released in febuary 2023
Mozilla genuinely believes that this company follows the principles of the Mozilla Manifesto. At least, according to what Mozilla.vc says on its homepage.
(See more of the $35 million of its investments there.)
Other investments include:
- Rodeo, an app that acknowledges the Gig Economy is harmful to Uber and Lyft drivers, but fundamentally doesn't want to change those harms.
- HuggingFace, a company valued at $4.5 billion already.
- lockrMail, an "inbox protecting" tool with a Chrome extension but no Firefox equivalent, and a direct competitor to Firefox Relay.
Jesus fucking Christ Mozilla..... You have one job.. Make a browser. Why the duck are you with Gary V, international man of stupidity.
Why would firefox deal with a known scammer?
I guess at the end of the day all of these entrepreneur are scammers.
Mozilla, as always, late to the party.
Crypto and NFT scam were a thing long ago.
Crypto and NFT scam were a thing long ago.
So was this article :) Not that there ever was a party.
Luckily Firefox remained a fine browser throughout the crypto nonsense, so I'm hoping the same holds true when the next AI winter sets in.
Mozilla purchased FakeSpot back in May 2023, and at the time, I sounded the alarm because of the dubious privacy policy they imported without changing.
People told me to Wait and See. And I waited, and Mozilla never changed it.
Unfortunately, if you Wait and See for too long, things apparently become Too Old Too Matter.
Even back in 2023 this was all old stuff … NFT scam was a big thing in 2021 and the crypto hype was a thing around 2013-2018. It’s both still there, but no-one really cares anymore as far as I can tell.
so I’m hoping the same holds true when the next AI winter sets in.
They are already sinking millions into the AI hype :(
I was about to say, can we do some crypto bullshit instead of improving the browser? Love this move for mozilla
My guess is the Google deal is running out soon, and they're desperately throwing shit against the wall, hoping something will stick.
I still think you should be able to make a decently working browser with the money Mozilla's CEO earns alone.EASILY!
I'm trying to keep my faith in Mozilla, but fucking Gary Vee?????
Feb 7, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. Updated May 9, 2023 at 6:07 a.m.
As of September 19th, 2024, Webacy is still listed in the Mozilla Venture Capital portfolio:
You all not only don’t read the article, the date published is right there in the URL
There's already a thread regarding this article's age in this post