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Avery Pennarun is the CEO and co-founder of Tailscale. A version of this post was originally presented at a company all-hands. We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. The future can be distracting. But increasingly, I’ve found companies are starting to buy Tailscale not just for what it does now, but for the big things they expect it’ll do in the future. They’re right! Let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change. But first, let’s go back to where we started. David Crawshaw’s first post that laid out what we were doing, long long ago in the late twenty-teens, was called Remembering the LAN, about his experience doing networking back in the 1990s. I have bad news: if you remember doing LANs back in the 1990s, you are probably old. Quite a few of us here at Tailscale remember doing LANs in the 1990s. That’s an age gap compared t

The New Internet: Tailscale's Vision for the Future of Connectivity Join us June 23 to see the ROI of switching to Tailscale. REGISTER -> Blog | insights July 26, 2024 The New Internet Avery Pennarun is the CEO and co-founder of Tailscale. A version of this post was originally presented at a company all-hands. We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. The future can be distracting. But increasingly, I’ve found companies are starting to buy Tailsc

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