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Tailscale has raised $160M

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Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by xyst »

jedberg wrote: post #106
tptacek wrote: post #78

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I think they might be operating at a scale that breaks those kinds of pages at this point? Not literally, of course, just they're past the point where the page makes sense.

Cloudflare still has their about page with thousands of people: https://www.cloudflare.com/people/

lol - wonder if HR or whoever maintains this site just scrapes the internal directory to generate the is page.

Names/photos are not even clickable. Just first names and a photo.

Thats so cloudflare.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by bjackman »

_lvbh wrote: post #87
arcanemachiner wrote: post #19

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I've always been on the outside looking in, so I've never used Tailscale or its open-source brethren. Would this service be comparable to Headscale[0]? [0] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

Headscale is server only. Netbird is the whole stack (basically does the same thing but completely different software/implementation)

But the tailscale client is open source too

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by nikonp »

syntaxing wrote: post #81
burningion wrote: post #59

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Yes, rerun does replay, that was my main use case when prototyping. They've since raised more funding recently, and have larger use cases in mind for robotics: https://rerun.io/blog/physical-ai-data I've spoken with members of the team, and they're all great. Wouldn't hesitate to use the product / work with them anywhere.

I can't seem to find the replay function. As in replaying the sensor data as if it was "live". Would you happen to have a link to this feature?

Rerun co-founder here. Rerun doesn’t have replay in the sense of you send messages in and can play back the same messages in the same order later. We have playback in the sense that you can play it back in the viewer. We also have apis for reading back data but its more focused on dataframe use cases rather than sending you back messages

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by password4321 »

formerly_proven wrote: post #93
tptacek wrote: post #76

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If it's hype, it's not hype the way you're thinking. I've shown Tailscale to a lot of people (this is less salient now, when pretty much everybody uses Tailscale) and the most common reaction I've gotten is "holy shit". It is spooky simple to get working, and it's spooky simple to go from a working installation to a VPN configuration that would take many many hours to replicate with pre-existing tools. There may be V…

My only technical complaint with Tailscale is that its hole punching doesn't seem to work with some common CGNATs/double NATs when both endpoints are using them, and then traffic ends up trickling through their public proxy servers, while running your own is kinda annoying and not recommended or documented.

> running your own [proxy servers] is kinda annoying and not recommended or documented

?? https://tailscale.com/kb/1118/custom-derp-servers

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by nialv7 »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #124
johnbellone wrote: post #123

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I'd be surprised if the average package for SWE is $1M/year (fully loaded).

Generally package is around half of what company spends per extra engineer. And $500k average for a tech heavy product company doesn't sound too far off.

Holy hell I need to ask for a raise.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by croemer »

kenrose wrote: post #130
chubot wrote: post #70

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Hm OK well thinking out loud, $100M / 3 is $33M / year? I don't know much about Tailscale, nor about how much it costs to run a company, but I thought it was mostly a software company? I would imagine that salaries are the main cost, and revenue could cover salaries? (seems like they have a solid model - https://tailscale.com/pricing ) I'm sure they have some cloud fees, but I thought it was mostly "control plane" an…

You're not wrong to think Tailscale is primarily a software company, and yes, salaries are a big part of any software company's costs. But it's definitely more complex than just payroll. A few other things: 1. Go-to-market costs Even with Tailscale's amazing product-led growth, you eventually hit a ceiling. Scaling into enterprise means real sales and marketing spend—think field sales, events, paid acquisition, conte…

At least tailscale funnel isn't control-plane-only, unless I'm totally misunderstanding something

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by 9dev »

fragmede wrote: post #107
pomatic wrote: post #27

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When they raised the 100M three years ago, I'm pretty sure they said they didn't need it and were saving it for a rainy day (or words to that effect), always seemed very odd at the time. Two q's for anyone who cares to speculate: have they burnt the original investment already? And if not, why would they need more funding? AFAICS there's no real competition in the market place for their product today, the only thing…

There might be other things going on in the US that you could maybe possibly have heard about, and investors are looking for different places other than the US stock market to invest their money, and Tailscale is looking to have a war chest because of the exceedingly possible case that we're headed into a global recession.

Aren’t they Canadian though?

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by dharmab »

srameshc wrote: post #17

I don't probably use Tailscale to it's full potential but I love this tool. We have our small servers at our offices across the world and it has give us so much flexibility to access some of the files via shared drives or try out installing / testing stuff. Me and my wife also drop each other pictures of our kids using tailscale now.

I'm using it for friends and family file sharing, it's fantastic.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by Uzmanali »

Tailscale just got a lot of money to keep growing. But what they are doing is more important than the money. They are helping computers talk to each other in an easy and safe way.

Before, the internet was built to connect places, not people. That made things messy. People had to set up tricky stuff like VPNs and firewalls. Tailscale makes this much easier by using your name or account, not just numbers like IP addresses.

Now, big companies and people at home use Tailscale to keep their computers and apps connected. It works without a lot of setup, and it’s safe. Even people building smart robots and AI are using it.

What’s really good is that Tailscale still helps small users for free, and they try hard not to break anything when they update their tools. If they keep doing that, they can become a very important part of how the internet works in the future.

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