Tailscale has raised $160M

(tailscale.com)

1. wg0 ◴[09 Apr 25 05:50 UTC] No.43629260[source]▶

Start looking for alternatives already. Nothing good came out of VC rounds and private equity for the end consumers ever.

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2. sidcool ◴[09 Apr 25 05:58 UTC] No.43629293[source]▶

I understand the cynicism. But this is counter productive. Any venture has to have a finance angle. They are not missionaries.

3. LunaSea ◴[09 Apr 25 07:29 UTC] No.43629710[source]▶

Sure, but amounts matter.

4. wg0 ◴[09 Apr 25 07:40 UTC] No.43629766[source]▶

All in for profitability and financial activity. That's the very foundation of innovation.

But VC funding works very differently.

5. BiteCode_dev ◴[09 Apr 25 09:59 UTC] No.43630502[source]▶

Steam does fine financially and without having to answer investors, which is why it's been able to stay mostly good to its user base for so long.

This is not an "xor" statement.

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6. afroboy ◴[09 Apr 25 11:03 UTC] No.43630817[source]▶

What's wrong with Steam (Valve) business model?

7. wg0 ◴[09 Apr 25 12:09 UTC] No.43631193{3}[source]▶

So is Basecamp. Profitability is not a dirty word.

8. mbs159 ◴[12 Apr 25 07:34 UTC] No.43662218[source]▶

VC funding is on a whole other level, though