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By August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund
Heh. Maybe he's doing high-end closeting.
A guy who was their CEO for 11 days 9 years ago?
Oh, from your link, I thought you were referring to him being the CEO of Mozilla 9 years ago, and that was a reason why you wouldn't use Firefox. I didn't realize that he moved from Mozilla to start Brave Software after that.