Tailscale has raised $160M

Off-topic, but it makes me laugh that companies will list their “investors”, “advisors”, etc. on their company page, but not the people working there.

That said, Tailscale is one of the products that just works.

As someone who currently has their photo on a company's 'About Us' page, I hate it. Why does anyone care who the nth developer is? Let me just do my job without forcing me to be publicly listed for spammers and scammers to target me.

I do in fact care about the nth developer when I visit about us pages.

Maybe a slight bias on my part as I'm a developer and not an investor.

And not that funding or advising is less important, but it's a nice feeling connecting a product I like to faces who make it happen.

I think they might be operating at a scale that breaks those kinds of pages at this point? Not literally, of course, just they're past the point where the page makes sense.

You can always find a lot of us on LinkedIn :D {I work at Tailscale}

I agree it's silly, but worth noting is that the target audience for those pages are usually:

1. Potential customers

2. Potential investors

Both groups are a lot more swayable by social proof from seeing the "investors" than the devs as they infer a lot of credibility based on who has funded you. Similarly that's why you often see big company logos on marketing pages because it makes other customers more likely to buy. "<xyz> is too big to be wrong about this product"

Cloudflare still has their about page with thousands of people:

https://www.cloudflare.com/people/

It's super useful to potential hires about the kind of team you're building. Especially if there's some kind of niche you're in (product, tech, region, whatever). There are people who I would climb mountains to work with, and others within a niche whose very presence in a company is enough to steer me away. Another signal for me is the fraction of xooglers in the engineering team.

Eh. Investors/advisors don't change that frequently. And often people will go "oh? Sequoia generally invests in good companies, the invest in X? They might be worth while to buy/work for".

Putting people on the website is, very variable. Do you update the website every week or two when someone comes or leaves? Well that's awkward if someone is fired.

You get to 100 people, then 200 people. Now what do you do? Remove everyone? Only put people on above a certain level? What do you do when someone asks you not to be listed. Or when John becomes Jane, but doesn't want to be super duper public about it?

Or, when your company gets media attention and now the moment you add/remove someone from the website you get news or social media posts about it?

I think my employer decided to remove all non-executives at some point to ward off headhunters. Not sure how much it helps considering everyone's on LinkedIn.

This is a press release targeted by rapacious capitalists. By mentioning other big named investors, you keep the grift going and continue securing future funding until IPO.

lol - wonder if HR or whoever maintains this site just scrapes the internal directory to generate the is page.

Names/photos are not even clickable. Just first names and a photo.

Thats so cloudflare.

TBF, the folks who get actual value out of knowing who works at Tailscale already know who works there :)

They're not exactly secretive, there's just little value to have it on the main company page. (And if you just want pictures, https://tailscale.com/careers has that too.)

> Another signal for me is the fraction of xooglers in the engineering team.

In which direction?

Feels like tech companies treat engineers like implementation details until they need to hire more of them.

You could look all the details you need and more up on linkedin.

used to have last names, but it became a security concern. It is ordered by seniority.

Because it's so cool when I go "oh hey I know that guy!"

Companies hide their employees, especialy the real value adding ones, for fear of them getting poached.