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

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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[–] gemappliedfax@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Meh. I will keep using it

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Didnt even work for me, i use mullvad so if i wanted to use tailscale on my android to connect to my desktop, it wants me to disable mullvad unlike on my desktop..

[–] scrooge101@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tailscale offers a paid Mullvad integration, where you can select most Mullvad servers as exit nodes. Works quite well.

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[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (6 children)

What is even the point of tailscale? What can it do that other VPN solutions don't? I feel like this is a problem that was solved like 20 years ago and still we're coming up with novel solutions for some reason. At my company they want to start using tailscale and I don't see why we don't just set up wireguard on a node in our k8s cluster instead

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 days ago

Because it offers much more than just VPN even though that's what most users use it for. Read their documentation and you'll see

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[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

Was listening to some computer podcast a while ago and the co-host and ex- hacker was saying that more and more VPNs are getting targeted and it’s just a matter of time we see quite a bit of them owned. (I think he was talking about implementation of VPNs for remote workers, rather than actual VPN providers. Sorry, it was some time ago)

Anyway, the host asked „What about wireguard?“

And the co-host: „Oh yeah, wireguard is solid! But all the services building up on wireguard? … They’ll get popped.“

Doesn’t have to be true, but something to keep in mind.

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