Wasn't this acquisition just a bit money laundering operation from Israel?
Nope, but you might want to check your sources if that's what you've been told.
Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#122Congrats to to the Wiz team. Wiz is amazing. But, ugh, joining Google will result in less competition and all that entails. Not great for customers. It's a pity going public isn't worth it anymore.
Google is a public company so in some way they have gone public.
I wish people would remember the stock markets were invented for companies to raise funds, not for the private investors to cash out. The public should be allowed to invest in new companies, not just the rich.
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#123Joins the graveyard in 6 months tops
I was part of the mandiant acquisition, and half of us were laid off a year after we joined Google. Many of the remainding mandiant members were let go in random 'org changes' layoffs afterwards. Let's see if they treat Wiz any differently.
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#125What is that animation of the cloud on their home page, tapping and blocking a cloud
I don't know, but it makes me uncomfortable
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#126Getting old is seeing every single successful platform be bought out by one of the big ones.
theres a famous painting about this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
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#129The interesting part is that Wiz built its success largely on being cloud-agnostic. If Google keeps it that way, it becomes a strategic window into AWS and Azure workloads. If they don’t, they risk destroying the very advantage that made Wiz valuable in the first place.
They very likely will continue being cloud-agnostic, just like they did with Mandiant Consulting.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wiz customer here, when fully implemented it provides an incredibly detailed and comprehensive view of your infrastructure. I'm curious how much of that information is going to pass between Wiz and Google Cloud product/sales. It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.
>>It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors. I wonder if there are antitrust lawyers watching this closely. Would be really interesting to get their perspective on this.
Wiz got "unconditional" approval from the EU. I think this was the last step holding up the acquisition.
https://www.reuters.com/world/google-secures-eu-antitrust-ap...