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Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO (betakit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of “surprising” growth

Pennarun confirmed the company had been approached by potential acquirers, but told BetaKit that the company intends to grow as a private company and work towards an initial public offering (IPO).

“Tailscale intends to remain independent and we are on a likely IPO track, although any IPO is several years out,” Pennarun said. “Meanwhile, we have an extremely efficient business model, rapid revenue acceleration, and a long runway that allows us to become profitable when needed, which means we can weather all kinds of economic storms.”

Keep that in mind as you ponder whether and when to switch to self-hosting Headscale.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Join our Discord server for a chat and community support.

Sigh...

And even worse:

Everything in Tailscale is Open Source, except the GUI clients for proprietary OS (Windows and macOS/iOS), and the control server.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

everything is open source except half of all things.

Lol

[–] heals@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, anything the GUI clients do can be done with the CLI which is still open source and on all desktop platforms and headscale is literally their open source control server.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea, but in iOS?

[–] heals@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

The iOS app is the exception for now but with the CLI and the core libs being open source it’s at least not off the table to make an alternate iOS client I’d say.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, I actually didn't know this because I don't use Windows/macOS/iOS. Somehow completely missed this.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 year ago

Granted this is not Headscale's fault, they're just using Tailscale clients. Either way I'm glad I use a roll-your-own Wireguard.

I and my partner also don't use those OSs, but it's more the point of using FOSS when we can.