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For $32B Google are buying Wiz's brand, existing customers and their pipeline of customers, along with the technology.



This is the answer, Wiz already has a foot in the door / running contracts with huge cloud consumers, but not all of them are using Google's cloud. I wonder if Google tries to earn more money off of competing cloud platforms by offering services like this.


Wiz has no brand, no one knows who they are.

Revenue from Wiz's customers will not make back $32 billion dollars even in 30 years.

Wiz's technology is irrelevant. I think Google already scans for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. And can build similar for low millions of dollars.


Plenty of people know who they are and have for quite a while.


A few years is not quite a while.


If they want the customers, they should have to compete for them. Google shouldn't be allowed to acquire any companies. They're already huge.


The issue is a lot of customers are going to run away from Wiz now, due to all the Google uncertainty.




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