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Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by adrianmonk »

whyage wrote: post #109
toephu2 wrote: post #108

Great company, bad name. Pretty sure the company name was chosen by a non-native English speaker since it's an Israeli company after all. Sort of like Wix... Wix also an Israeli company with an odd sounding name (although better then Wiz).

What's wrong with the name Wiz?

It makes me think of the 1978 movie "The Wiz" starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor. Despite the big stars, it isn't generally regarded as a very good movie. Maybe updating "The Wizard of Oz" with disco music wasn't a good idea after all.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by paganel »

miltava wrote: post #120
sen wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When it comes to Google it’s not being pessimistic, it’s just being realistic.

Maybe for most of their acquisitions (but I don’t know). But they do get acquisitions right: YouTube, android, double click, Waze…

The majority (all, I'd say) of those are 15 years (and more) in the past by now. Not sure about Waze, well, looks like I was wrong, they were only acquired in 2013, so it's "only" 13 years in the past for them.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by cbHXBY1D »

FYI, Wiz investor and current Wiz board member Gili Raanan, head of Israeli VC Cyberstarts, has been (credibly) accused of paying bribes to major CISOs for buying software from their portfolio companies like Wiz.

Calcalist did a deep investigation into it: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by verdverm »

antonvs wrote: post #103
StartupsWala wrote: post #48

The 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.

Google has quite a bit of support for other clouds already. The managed Kubernetes in Gcloud can run workloads on other clouds, for example.

They all pretty much support cloud agnostic WIF any which way at this point. With that out of the way, the rest gets easier.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by anon84873628 »

eitally wrote: post #128
miltava wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe for most of their acquisitions (but I don’t know). But they do get acquisitions right: YouTube, android, double click, Waze…

And more relevant, Mandiant.

Or Apigee. Or Looker. These comments are tiring.
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