Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
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Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#2That's $10B more than they offered last year. Not bad if you're holding Wiz shares.
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#3This spurred me to look up a list of Google/Alphabet's historical acquisitions.
I remembered that YouTube was M&A, of course, but I'd forgotten all about some other companies that Alphabet bought over the years:
* Motorola
* Nest
* DoubleClick
* FitBit
* Waze
* DeepMind
* Boston Dynamics
Other things I totally forgot existed, like Songza and Picnik, wound up under Alphabet at some point.
For some reason, Alphabet doesn't intuitively feel like a very acquisitive company, but they clearly are very active.
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#4This spurred me to look up a list of Google/Alphabet's historical acquisitions. I remembered that YouTube was M&A, of course, but I'd forgotten all about some other companies that Alphabet bought over the years: * Motorola * Nest * DoubleClick * FitBit * Waze * DeepMind * Boston Dynamics Other things I totally forgot existed, like Songza and Picnik, wound up under Alphabet at some point. For some reason, Alphabet doe…
They used to acquire/acquihire a ton of smaller startups, but that stopped for the past 4 years due to a different FTC.
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#5Wiz is an incredible product that I was hoping would go public and become a fairly independent powerhouse
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#6Any circumstances change that prompted Alphabet and Wiz to redo the deal?
I am not aware of what are the exact roadblocks that stopped the deal last year, and it isn't clear from the article that they have been removed.
23 billion is already a huge sum, so more money than that isn't likely to cause a change of heart, I guess.
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#7What will they do with it and why do they want it so badly?
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#8This spurred me to look up a list of Google/Alphabet's historical acquisitions. I remembered that YouTube was M&A, of course, but I'd forgotten all about some other companies that Alphabet bought over the years: * Motorola * Nest * DoubleClick * FitBit * Waze * DeepMind * Boston Dynamics Other things I totally forgot existed, like Songza and Picnik, wound up under Alphabet at some point. For some reason, Alphabet doe…
It always looks like they don’t know what to do with the products after acquisition.
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#9As a total outsider, what makes Wiz so valuable? Why was the company as successful as it was?
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#10What will they do with it and why do they want it so badly?
GCP.
There’s been quite a few security related acquisitions in GCP. Someone must believe it to be their edge.