Tailscale raises $100M

I read almost all of TFA (started to jump paragraphs near the end) and still couldn't figure out what it was or did, even after being told, repeatedly, that they "make easy things easy".

Apparently, it's a VPN.

The blog post is poor. It has TailScale's "house style" of folksy reminiscence and Avery's stream-of-consciousness writing stylewrapped around an announcement. It only says two things, one at the top, and one at the bottom: "We raised a $100m for our war chest; we don't have any plans for how to use it besides extending runway for our current operations". The middle is left trying to justify why that is a good thing, despite not having a reason beyond "we know a lot of rich people who know we are wicked smart and talented, so they want a piece of equity in us".

The home page is a pretty clear exposition of what TailScale is: https://tailscale.com/

I thought the post was remarkably well written. I had a vague idea what Tailscale did going into it, but this post did a good job of describing the company's values and vision. I'm not sure what the intended audience of the announcement was, but for me it was interesting.

I got bored long before then. It's a terrible piece of self-backslapping drivel