Mozilla's former president Li Gong poach 30+ people from his former office (technews.co)

10 points by irvinfly 11y ago ↗ HN

According to this latest news, Mozilla's former president Li Gong is poaching his former executive Mozilla branch for more then 30 managers & engineers for his new startup 'Gong Fishing', which is in direct compete with Mozilla on Firefox OS field.

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irvinfly 11y ago ↗

According to this news, Mozilla's former president Li Gong is poaching his former executive Mozilla branch for more then 30 managers & engineers for his new startup 'Gong Fishing', which is in direct compete with Mozilla on Firefox OS field.

JadeNB 11y ago ↗

I wondered at the monumental self-centredness of calling the start-up "Gong Fishing", but it appears to be just a typo for "Gone Fishing".

irvinfly 11y ago ↗

Yeah that's my typo, and it's still an nickname according to last week's CNET http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-os-in-flux-as-mozilla-loses...

JadeNB 11y ago ↗

Where does the title of the post come from? I guess 'poach' is meant to be 'poaches', but the title of the linked article seems to be "China Poaches Top Talent from Mozilla Taiwan for IoT Projects", which is at least as informative, and subtly different. (Also, the linked article refers to the relevant poacher as Gong Li, not Li Gong; but I know that converting name order from Chinese meaningfully to English is a tricky business.)

rurban 11y ago ↗

Well, Gong Li would be the famous actress.