Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Mozilla’s CEO John Lilly Speaks!
I met John Lilly last October on a decidedly odd techie scavenger hunt in Hawaii– trapped in a van all day while searching for tikis and such, as if we were a geek Brady Bunch (yes, BoomTown works that hard for you)–and found him to be just the kind of quietly intelligent, thoughtful and self- effacing digital exec that Silicon Valley could use a lot more of in these often frivolous, look-at-me Web 2.0 days.
Soon after, in January, Lilly was named CEO of Mozilla Corporation, after serving its its COO, taking over for Mitchell Baker, who remains its chairman. Mozilla just launched its Firefox 3 browser to much success.
Here’s my video interview with him about where Mozilla is going next.
