On Tuesday, Brave plans to announce two more employees. Helping to co-found Brave are Brian Bondy, a programmer who worked on Firefox at Mozilla and more recently was an engineer at online education specialist Khan Academy, and Kevin Grandon, who worked on Firefox OS and the WebVR technology for virtual reality on the Web. 'Since all the big powers are public companies, they have to serve their shareholders. 'It's vitally important to put the user first,' Eich said in an exclusive interview. Brave evidently aims to shift the balance of power back toward the user through new software that will give people some type of ability to collectively push back.

That's because boycotting any of them means cutting oneself off from the mainstream. But anyone who doesn't agree with such companies' policies has little choice but to stick with them.

Eich won't share any details yet but said Brave's software will help give people independence from technology giants that often seem to care more about shareholders than users.Ĭompanies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft wield tremendous power over the technology we all use daily, from smartphones at the center of our lives to communications with our closest contacts. Though he parted ways with Firefox maker Mozilla, the Brave CEO is carrying some of the nonprofit's power-to-the-people ethos to his new for-profit venture.

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