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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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[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

become profitable when needed

By what, laying off all QA and support staff and half your developers the moment a single quarterly earnings report isn't spotlessly gilded?

[–] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I never really understood the point of using Tailscale over plain ol' WireGuard. I mean I guess if youve got a dozen+ nodes but I feel like most laymens topologies won't be complex beyond a regular old wireguard config

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wireguard doesn't do NAT/Firewall traversal nor does it have SSO

Tailscale manages the underlying Wireguard for you. I would be great if Wireguard had native NAT traversal but that isn't the case.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

NAT punching and proxying when a p2p connection between any 2 nodes cannot be achieved. It’s a world of difference with mobile devices when they always see each other, all the time. However, headscale does all that.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 days ago

I mean sure, but I don't think it's simpler than setting up a wireguard config IMO. For tailscale you gotta make an account, register devices, connect them. Feel like wireguard is about the same except you don't have to make an account.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Same thing here, either tailscale selfhosted or Netbird selfhosted I'd the way to go for all the nice features, having the free tier or tailscale for personal data never sounded right to me.

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Good thing I deleted it from my homeserver a month ago.

[–] tills13@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago
[–] callcc@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

Just came here to say that the guy looks like a creep!

[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

is this some kind of furry porn CDN

[–] phx@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I didn't really get the allure of it TBH. For most home-based nerds a simple Wireguard host (or OpnSense, OpenWRT etc running such) should be fine, and there are better options for commercial from better-known vendors in the network security space

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

The "well known vendors" tend to be crap especially on a security level

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 159 points 1 week ago (18 children)

a long runway that allows us to become profitable when needed

Switch to self-hosting headscale when they enshittify in an attempt to become profitable, duh

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