Comment by coldtea
9 days ago
No donated cent should be going to such "foundations" anymore. Projects like Wikipedia should be run strictly by volunteers and paid contributors with moderate pays. Not Wall Street people, big corporate execs, and lavish offices.
"Bernadette Meehan became CEO on January 20, 2026, recruited from a career that included Wall Street stints at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers, a spokesperson role at the National Security Council, senior leadership at the Obama Foundation, and most recently a posting as U.S. Ambassador to Chile."
Fuck that.
I agree, but to do that you need _something_ and _someone_ (often multiple someones) to manage all that.
A small community driven team could manage all that fine.
Like with Mozilla, it's not let to.
> A small community driven team could manage all that fine.
Are there any examples of small community driven teams responsible for managing $200 million revenue?
Her exact comp hasn't been filed yet (watch for next year's IRS filings) but I'd suspect she'll make around 500K. That's a lot of money, but it's obvious she could make more in some of those other roles. This is not "Big Tech CEO" money.
>That's a lot of money, but it's obvious she could make more in some of those other roles.
She should be told "thank you" then, and let go to make more in some of those other roles.
Such corporate/political world/etc non-community-arising execs just mess with the goals of such projects as Wikipedia or Mozilla.