Wiz is an incredible product that I was hoping would go public and become a fairly independent powerhouse
How hard is to create company like Wiz?
Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
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#12What will they do with it and why do they want it so badly?
Add it to Google cloud to compete with Microsoft.
Microsoft does have really compelling offering from management PoV. They have Identity Provider, endpoint protection, cloud policy scanning, whole mess of 365 stuff along side their cloud. GCP is probably losing deals to that story.
As Azure Ops person, it’s poorly integrated story sometimes but good story is good story.
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#14This 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…
Picasa (Lifescape) became Google Photos
Re: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
#15This 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.
It's because the motivation for these acquisitions doesn't have much to do with product. It's just a way to extinguish outside talent and innovation that could disrupt down the road.
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#17As a total outsider, what makes Wiz so valuable? Why was the company as successful as it was?
Think sensor fusion for all the hardware and software in your company funneled into a great UI that manages to balance ease of use, intelligent automation, and powerful searching/graphing capabilities.
We trialed it at my last company. It managed to impress the CEO and my security team at the same time for vastly different reasons.
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#18For those that have used Wiz, what makes it so great?
It's one of the fastest growing enterprise saas company ever in history.
But why?
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#19Any 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.
You wonder if Wiz is having second thoughts about IPO just as we go into recession
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#20Wiz is an incredible product that I was hoping would go public and become a fairly independent powerhouse
How hard is to create company like Wiz?
If you haven’t used it I would try and kick the tires through your company. It’s a pretty powerful tool to put multiple cloud providers under a single pane of glass and normalize security terminology across them. And that’s before you get into the automations, the remediation, the optional Code and Defend add-ons, and more