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Tailscale raises $100M

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pilif ◴[] No.31260250[source]
With such a huge investment comes the obligation to eventually pay it back. Is this another one of my favourite tools going the way of Dropbox, 1Password and all other companies that were formed around what should be a platform feature, which took on way too large investment sums and were eventually forced to become the everything, losing sight of their core values?

I sincerely hope not, but there's so much bad precedent.

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1. gowld ◴[] No.31260318[source]
> should be a platform feature

OK, but it's not. Now what? Do we just live without until the platform overlords provide it, or does someone build it on top of the platform?

What even is the "platform", when my Android phone is connecting to my iPad and my Windows laptop and Linux desktop and Amazon cloud server?

$100M = ~$0.20 / computer user in US and western Europe (wealthy countries in connected software markets)