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[2023] Mozilla and Gary Vee fund cryptocurrency company Webacy (www.coindesk.com)
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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.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.