Computer History Museum

Baker, Winifred Mitchell oral history

In this interview with Marc Weber, Winifred Mitchell Baker, best known for her role as Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, provides an account of her life and career. She discusses her upbringing in Berkeley,California, and her educational background, receiving a BA in Chinese studies and a JD (both from University of California, Berkeley). Baker describes her introduction into the high tech world, taking a position at law firm Fenwick & West before moving to Sun Microsystems and, afterwards, joining Netscape. Baker became head of the Mozilla foundation in 2002 and describes the process of adjusting to Netscape’s new ownership (AOL), the development of Mozilla’s first product (Mozilla Application Suite 1.0), and the development and life of the Firefox web browser. She closes the interview by describing Mozilla’s plans for the future and discusses her experiences as a female leader in Silicon Valley.

Item Details

Date
2014-12-10 (Made)
Type
Moving Image
Catalogue number
102740007
Organization
Computer History Museum (Publisher)
People
Marc Weber (Interviewer)
Mitchell Baker (Interviewee)
Eric Dennis (Videographer)
Category
Oral History
Format
MOV
Credit line
Computer History Museum
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X7311.2015
Subject
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Netscape
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection