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Tailscale has raised $160M

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659 points louis-paul | 7 comments | 08 Apr 25 10:36 UTC | HN request time: 1.903s | source | bottom
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suralind ◴[08 Apr 25 17:21 UTC] No.43624195[source]▶
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.

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1. Carrok ◴[08 Apr 25 17:26 UTC] No.43624258[source]▶
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.
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2. pestaa ◴[08 Apr 25 18:03 UTC] No.43624704[source]▶
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.

3. duped ◴[08 Apr 25 20:01 UTC] No.43625880[source]▶
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.
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4. wpietri ◴[09 Apr 25 00:50 UTC] No.43627895[source]▶
> Another signal for me is the fraction of xooglers in the engineering team.

In which direction?

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6. justmarc ◴[09 Apr 25 07:41 UTC] No.43629775[source]▶
You could look all the details you need and more up on linkedin.
7. guappa ◴[09 Apr 25 10:04 UTC] No.43630519[source]▶
Because it's so cool when I go "oh hey I know that guy!"