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Suba Vasudevan is COO of Mozilla.org and SVP at Mozilla Corp - and I am honored to have interviewed her for Episode 16 of Your Career, Unscripted and to share her story and career advice! With 22+ years of global leadership across technology, AI, trust & safety, and advertising, Suba Vasudevan is responsible for leading Mozilla’s operational strategy to bring better, more relevant products to new audiences. Suba spent well over two decades leading small and large teams in strategy, operations, analytics, customer support and trust & safety. She has nurtured and expanded critical global organizations within Meta (formerly Facebook), driving innovation and trust. Prior, she advised clients across industries at KPMG’s Advisory Services and began her career as a journalist in India, exploring the intersection of technology and business. She has a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Texas A&M University, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai. For several years, Suba served as a Board Member for Mainspring Schools, a local non-profit in Austin, Texas for children from underprivileged families, leading their Strategic Planning Committee and demonstrating her commitment to community and inclusion-focused initiatives. Listen to her talk about: ◆why she used to think leadership meant having the answers, and how she now sees it as creating the conditions for others to ask better questions ◆her work evolving Mozilla from a 25-year-old legacy organization into a future-ready company—while staying true to its open-source roots ◆how to handle feedback you don’t like (or don’t agree with) ◆what really gets people promoted ◆the power of accountability, honesty, and proactively seeking feedback Thank you Suba for the opportunity to learn from you and collaborate! 🎧 Listen now Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gusYBkiu Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gvK-YHmu YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gup9F_PK Be sure to check out Suba’s Substack https://suba.substack.com/ If you'd like to support, please like, comment, and share this with your network! To set up a career consulting session with me, message me on LinkedIn Jane Bernhard, MBA

The excellent Gemma Petrie once described browsers to me as "a mirror to what people are doing in their lives." This is an important choice for people - increasingly so, as AI companies launch their own browsers and hype the future of AI agents. Although they may not say it, the web and browsers (and browser engines) remain as important as ever. Just as important is browser choice and competition. Unfortunately, there remain many barriers to browser competition - both on mobile and desktop. But today’s provisional decisions from the CMA can be a step towards changing that on mobile. We’ve written to the UK Government and the CMA explaining why the DMCCA is a one-in-a generation opportunity to give people genuine choice online and bring renewed dynamism to the digital economy. It must not be squandered. https://lnkd.in/eTSZH4Yh

Firefox 141 is out, and it's packed with smart, helpful upgrades. The standout feature is AI-powered tab grouping that auto-sorts your tabs by topic—totally private and on-device. There’s also a super handy unit converter built right into the address bar (think “100 cm to inches” or “38°C to F”) and much more! Full release notes can be found here: https://lnkd.in/e_R-shi6

We've got a week of tech podcasts here on EarBuds Podcast Collective, curated by the queen of the tech podcast herself, Bridget Todd. She writes, "I’m excited to be hosting the new season of the IRL podcast from Mozilla and PRX. It centers the voices asking tough questions: Who built these systems? Who benefits? And how do we make tech more human? These are the other podcasts I trust to help me make sense of how tech is shaping our lives, from how we date and work to how power flows online." Discover her podcast picks, featuring Taylor Lorenz, Mozilla, Ed Zitron, iHeartMedia, and more here: https://lnkd.in/eqvCs54N

So many leadership conversations in tech start with the "what": What products, what roadmaps, what market share. But at Mozilla, we’re just as passionate about the “how.” How do you lead with values in the face of market pressures? How do you make room for principled tradeoffs, not just quick wins? And how do you stay mission-driven while still moving fast enough to matter? I’m excited to see my colleague Suba Vasudevan launching a new Mozilla newsletter, “What’s Next Starts with How We Lead” exploring exactly those questions. It’s a thoughtful, real-world look at leadership inside a mission-driven org trying to shape a healthier internet. If you’re thinking about trust, transformation, or the future of tech leadership, this is a series worth following. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gvNfTbnY

What does it take to lead differently in tech? 🚀 Introducing our new newsletter: What’s Next Starts with How We Lead At Mozilla, we’ve always believed the future of the internet should be shaped by more than just speed or scale. It should be shaped by values. That’s why we’re launching a new series about what it means to lead in a mission-driven tech organization today, and why how we lead matters just as much as what we build. It’s a candid look at the decisions, tensions, and transformations that shape Mozilla’s path forward and what others can learn from it. If you care about trust, tech, and what principled leadership looks like in action, this is for you. 👉 Share and subscribe! #leadership #innovation #AI #openweb #mozilla 

#AI is changing the way we communicate with animals, but at what cost to the rest of the planet? In this episode IRL, host Bridget Todd meets three people challenging the status quo: 1. Holly Alpine, who left Microsoft over AI’s use in oil and gas 2. Sasha Luccioni calling out the climate cost of compute at Hugging Face 3. Aza Raskin using AI to decode animal languages—and protect life on Earth From deep sea drilling to decoding whale song, this is what it means to shape the future of tech on a finite planet⤵️ https://mzl.la/4lFlr6A

Remember when #Meta's AI Discover Feed was sharing users’ private chats with AI? That wasn’t a bug; it was a design decision, and many users had no idea their chats were being exposed. So, we sounded the alarm, and thousands of you signed our petition👏 and Meta added a warning...then quietly removed it. That tells us one thing: Meta can do better, but they chose not to. Sign our petition and share with your network if believe design should never outweigh user protections⤵️ https://bit.ly/4lC9VZM