Wiz and Google Cloud share a vision to improve security by making it easier and faster for organizations of all types and sizes to protect themselves, end-to-end, across all major clouds,
The team quickly hit on the insight that cloud security needed a simpler, agentless architecture for an increasingly complex digital world,
Every service has configurations. Every service has identities and permissions,
Wiz felt like the first opportunity to build a security platform in a really long time, basically since CrowdStrike,
He can be extremely charming and personal and warm,
I can’t believe I’m going to say no to a $US23 billion acquisition.” ... But at the time, he didn’t want to give up a “once-in-life opportunity to be the largest cyber company in the world.”
I’m here for the long journey.”
Organisations had no visibility. None,
We have known each other for years, talk weekly and attend each other's birthday parties,
It's going to be a great litmus test and bellwether for M&A in 2025,
Large acquisition strategy is back on the menu for VC-backed companies,
It's a buy. I like Google. I think it's here to stay. Google is not going anywhere, they have a huge moat. I like the fact that they're down 20% in the last month,
It's a buy ... the company is down 80% since their Covid highs. It's attractively priced, we believe,
This is an established company for years. It's competing in a very competitive environment with e-commerce companies like Amazon,
We like also the Wiz acquisition,
Once this happens, that's going to be a major catalyst for the fintech space and most importantly, for the buy-now-pay-later category,
With Wiz, we believe we will vastly improve how security is designed, operated and automated, providing an end-to-end security platform for customers to prevent, detect and respond to incidents across all major clouds,
While the merger & acquisition environment has been extremely quiet to start the year, we believe that this acquisition will open the door to a massive wave of M&A across the tech landscape,
Wiz and Google Cloud are both fueled by the belief that cloud security needs to be easier, more accessible, more intelligent, and democratized, so more organizations can adopt and use cloud and AI securely,
With Lina Khan gone at the FTC…the M&A engines are back underway in Big Tech,