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Tailscale has raised $160M

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Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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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?

Apparently, yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailscale. Based in Toronto, Canada.

Go Canada!

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Thank you for sharing this link! I was about to slog through AI search results looking for an alternative.

I've been tracking this space for a while just out of annoyance that Tailscale offers ssh on the free tier, then not on the "starter" paid tier. Netbird is by far the best of the alternatives that I've tried.

Their Personal Plus (the non-business "starter" plan) does offer SSH, FWIW.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Off-topic, but it makes me laugh that companies will list their “investors”, “advisors”, etc. on their company page, but not the people working there. That said, Tailscale is one of the products that just works.

TBF, the folks who get actual value out of knowing who works at Tailscale already know who works there :)

They're not exactly secretive, there's just little value to have it on the main company page. (And if you just want pictures, https://tailscale.com/careers has that too.)

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Depressing news, I have no hope that the countdown to Tailscale being unusable subscription trash has not started with this announcement. I realize this is a very ironic place to make this statement, but I am utterly exhausted by VC money destroying all of the services I enjoy, like a slow disease spreading through a herd of livestock.

They have raised before, so that money helped shape the service you enjoy.

Yes, but when they raised before they did not give up a bunch of control in return.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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How is Tailscale going to achieve at least $1B in annual revenue? That’s the kind of promise that would have to be made to investors in order to raise funding of this magnitude.

Become the provider of choice for enterprise IT networks or get bought by Azure?

> get bought by Azure

Please no.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

#187
post #164

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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

Thanks for the clarification!

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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post #10

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Thank you for sharing this link! I was about to slog through AI search results looking for an alternative.

I've been tracking this space for a while just out of annoyance that Tailscale offers ssh on the free tier, then not on the "starter" paid tier. Netbird is by far the best of the alternatives that I've tried.

Can you comment a bit on what you liked about them, especially compared to Tailscale?

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

#189

Does anybody encounter issues with DNS after installing tailscale with it's MagicDNS enabled? It drives me nuts because my entire network just stops working. I removed tailscale but still won't be able to connect to my Ubuntu server.

I don't know how it works on Linux, but for Windows, the 'MagicDNS' just automatically adds a bunch of static entries to your hosts file to resolve the TS FQDNs and simple/machine names.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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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…

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