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Tailscale has raised $160M

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659 points louis-paul | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 10:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
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elAhmo ◴[08 Apr 25 14:09 UTC] No.43621983[source]▶
When I saw the new round, I was instantly worried about change in direction that will most likely come with this, and effectively drive away regular users from a tool that seems universally loved.

Similar sentiment can be seen in the discussion from three years ago [1] when they raised $100M.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31259950

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1. specialp ◴[08 Apr 25 17:43 UTC] No.43624453[source]▶
There are plenty of enterprises that will pay them to run their services and provide better integrations while allowing open source users to continue. Now people will get upset because some of these things will be for those customers only but it is very hard to keep developing these things and give them out for free. Partially open source still allows those to extend the work they give to the community and they will probably still continue to have a free tier to get more enterprise customers in the end.