Tailscale has raised $160M • Hacker News Board

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by depr » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 8:06 PM UTC

littlecranky67 wrote: post #246

Still can't wrap my head around that TS does not allow to signup with your custom email/password combination but forces you to use bigtech (GitHub, Apple, Meta etc.) to login. Running your custom OIDC provider as a small, private person does not make any sense either.

For a single user, email signup is easy. But if they were to offer it they would also need to offer it to business customers. That means they have to build a role system and link that to AD etc. That is why they don't have it. (Their CEO discusses this in a recent interview).

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by fakebizprez » Mon, Apr 14, 2025, 6:18 PM UTC

rjgray wrote: post #230

briHass wrote: post #192

I'm a fan of TS and have been a paying customer for work infra for almost a year now. It really is well put together and easy to use, but I do run up against some issues/complaints when diving deep that I hope they can work out: * The pricing tiers and included features by tier penalizes you in frustrating ways. The base plan is a reasonable $6/user/m, but if you want to use ACLs to control anything in a workable way…

Do you mind sharing the better solutions you'd consider at the higher price point?

exactly. there is none.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by MrDarcy » Sat, Apr 19, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

purplepatrick wrote: post #205

hug wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s wildly and hugely unrealistic. The rule of thumb that employees actually cost a business roughly twice their salary is based on two things: 1. Retention. Hiring costs are “huge”, and so if you have a higher or lower average retention, may make up a disproportionate cost compared to salary. Ramp up time and institutional knowledge loss is no joke either. 2. A spread of average wages. 500k is not average, and a hu…

Non-salary cost such as payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, training, equipment, space add another 25-50% typically.

They don’t, those are fixed. Even taxes are capped because TC includes equity.

For a 500K dev GP is correct, additional expenses will never reach 50K for someone making 500K.

Re: Tailscale has raised $160M

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Post by ewpratten » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 12:59 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #161

jedberg wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It’s automated in the kind of way that makes a lot of sense to people familiar with the internal HR systems.