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Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B; Wiz raised $1B at a $12B valuation in May 2024

Deal would be tech giant's largest acquisition ever.

Wall Street Journal Lauren Thomas

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  • @katie_roof Katie Roof on x
    There's a good ROI on giving me exclusives, just saying 😜
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
    Google's largest acquisition of all time being a cybersecurity startup (Motorola was $12.5B) is a testament to how bad things are on the security front across the industry as I mentioned a few days ago. It's also an opportunity to attack Microsoft's recent public failures. [image…
  • @senblumenthal Richard Blumenthal on x
    Seems like this deal would be one for the antitrust textbooks—how to enrage enforcers & elude law & logic in pursuing monopoly power. It deserves exacting scrutiny, & some skepticism. https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @dadiomov Dimitri Dadiomov on x
    If Google buys Wiz for $23 bn as reported by the WSJ, is it: - Google's largest acquisition, because $23 billion? - or only 0.1% of Google's market cap and really not that big of a deal? All a matter of perspective. Hard to internalize just how big big tech actually is now.
  • @pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x
    Wiz is backed by A16Z, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Insight Partners, Cyberstarts, Thrive Capital, Greylock, Wellington, Salesforce, Blackstone, Advent, Greenoaks and Aglaé https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
    Basically every big company uses Wiz. Google's gonna have to work super hard to deprecate it in ~18 months.
  • @howard Howard Lerman on x
    It would be great for America if the DOJ permitted Technology M&A again.
  • @anshublog Anshu Sharma on x
    Cloud security is probably the single largest TAM in software today - and growing faster than any other category except language models. The $23B Google acquisition of Wiz makes sense.
  • @edsim Ed Sim on x
    🔥 Absolutely massive if this happens. Cybersecurity is the gift that keeps giving - sucks and no matter how much one spends the market and attacks keep 📈 Vs Hubspot My take is with cybersecurity there is more leniency with antitrust and from what I hear pretty rich
  • @chirag_mehta Chirag Mehta on x
    Google has been on a journey to unify cloud security and enterprise security operations in single fabric. By combining threat intelligence from Mandiant, SecOps from Chronicle, and CNAPP from Wiz, Google could become a dominant security solutions player in a fast-growing market.
  • r/BB_Stock r on reddit
    Google Near $23 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz