Five thousand (paying) teams on Tailscale

Tailscale, a company founded in 2019, has reached a milestone of 5,000 paying customers, demonstrating substantial growth, especially in the last year. Initially focusing on supporting smaller, often overlooked projects rather than scaling to a billion users, Tailscale started with just a couple of customers, including Versabank, and went through a journey of raising seed funding, launching a closed beta, and developing a payment system. By 2020, the company had over 100 paying customers, including a significant industrial client that helped Tailscale scale its operations to accommodate large deployments. The company's features, designed for a range of customer sizes, culminated in Tailscale Enterprise, catering to complex environments, and have attracted notable clients like Instacart and Airbus. Despite its expansion, Tailscale remains committed to solving network issues for all users, offering a free personal use option to hundreds of thousands of monthly active users.