[HN Gopher] Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
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       Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
        
       Previously: Google to buy Wiz for $32B -
       https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518 - March 2025 (845
       comments)
        
       Author : aldarisbm
       Score  : 194 points
       Date   : 2026-03-11 14:58 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.wiz.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wiz.io)
        
       | napolux wrote:
       | Congrats!
        
       | Alex3917 wrote:
       | Not to be confused with Google's existing product called Wiz.
        
         | jsheard wrote:
         | Or the Wiz IoT company, which seems like something Google might
         | assimilate into Nest, but they didn't.
        
           | pwr22 wrote:
           | Or the GP2X Wiz handheld (which will be forever what comes to
           | mind first for me )
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Wiz
        
           | jtmetcalfe wrote:
           | I thought so too at first, which would make sense as Nest
           | does everything except lighting...
        
         | Arainach wrote:
         | I'd argue an internal framework isn't a "product", but the
         | confusion is real.
        
       | PunchTornado wrote:
       | I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a
       | unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud
       | agnostic?
        
         | d4mi3n wrote:
         | Probably a diversification play and a play to see out bigger
         | contracts. If you've worked in the FEDRamp space, you may be
         | aware that Wiz (last a checked, a year or so ago) is one of the
         | few and possibly ownly player certified to operate in FedRAMP
         | Medium/High deployments operating with the technology it does
         | (eBPF instrumentation).
        
           | scottyah wrote:
           | Google has really been expanding into DoD lately. I think
           | they're realizing it's a large part of why AWS is so big and
           | Azure is still alive.
        
         | aberoham wrote:
         | I'm really hoping this means GCP Security Command Center
         | quickly gets subsumed by Wiz
        
           | htrp wrote:
           | you mean there will now be three products instead of two
           | 
           | Google Security Center Wiz Google Agentic Wiz Security
        
         | tw04 wrote:
         | >or they will keep it cloud agnostic?
         | 
         | They grossly overpaid if they aren't keeping it cloud agnostic.
         | It's impressive software, but if it's only compatible with GCP
         | it will not survive in this space.
        
         | raw_anon_1111 wrote:
         | Thats the entire purpose, the reality is that large
         | corporations are increasingly "multi cloud" and Google wants to
         | have an offering for them and for companies that are on AWS and
         | Azure to be able to move some of their workloads to GCP.
         | 
         | AWS and GCP also made a joint announcement about multi cloud
         | networking for a similar reason
         | 
         | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
        
         | newsclues wrote:
         | Make it easy to use google cloud and plug into google ai
        
         | jcims wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | torginus wrote:
           | Is this like Darktrace?
           | 
           | Apparently the cybersec bigwigs at our company love it, but
           | for me I have to write a detailed explaination why another
           | 'incident report' the clueless cybersecurity guys keep
           | bothering me with is actually nonsense.
        
             | alephnerd wrote:
             | Nope. Darktrace is crap verging on fraud. Wiz actually
             | solves tangible CSPM and runtime issues.
        
           | rabidonrails wrote:
           | >>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.
        
             | sandy_coyote wrote:
             | 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...
        
         | cmrdporcupine wrote:
         | If you think Google is capable of making a singular coherent
         | decision on a topic like this, you're dreaming. There's likely
         | multiple competing visions.
         | 
         | That said: the goal with Google M&A remains the same as always.
         | Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or
         | how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play.
         | 
         | They are culturally incapable of merging other people's tech
         | into their own stack and have both the tendency to rewrite
         | everything from scratch on their own bespoke technologies and
         | also internal engineering teams that will bristle at having a
         | foreign body invade their cathedral.
         | 
         | You could say it would be talent acquisition but most everyone
         | who comes from a startup walks as soon as their golden
         | handcuffs loosen and they can find something else to do. Going
         | from startup to Google is usually torturous.
         | 
         | Been through this 15 years ago. I don't think anything has
         | changed.
        
           | breppp wrote:
           | > goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take
           | competition off the board. I don't know this company or how
           | they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play
           | 
           | I don't think that's true here (what is the competing google
           | product exactly?) or generally in cloud acquisitions, that
           | generally buy into their platform missing features
        
             | cmrdporcupine wrote:
             | It's true that Cloud has behaved a bit different from
             | Classic Google
        
             | ragall wrote:
             | The competing Google features are not a distinct product
             | with its own name, but rather many separate features one
             | can enable, like container image scanning. Collectively, it
             | doesn't do all that Wiz offers, but it's still there.
        
       | debarshri wrote:
       | Google SecOps (Chronicle) is becoming quite popular among the
       | cybersec world. I think eventually there should be an integration
       | play. It is also a way to create wedge into AWS and Azure
       | customers.
        
         | hexfish wrote:
         | There already is an integration with SecOps:
         | https://www.wiz.io/integrations/google-security-operations and
         | https://docs.cloud.google.com/chronicle/docs/soar/marketplac...
         | 
         | Is that the kind of integration you are refering to?
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | These offerings are to pull customers to GCP. That is what
         | Google is paying for because they couldn't get the traction
         | organically.
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337644
        
       | redbell wrote:
       | Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the
       | letter _W_ here :)
        
         | xnorswap wrote:
         | W = Winners, it's just science ;)
         | 
         | I bet someone has actually studied the effect of leading
         | letters in startup names and funding & acquisitions, I vaguely
         | seem to remember a story about it in the past.
        
           | yomismoaqui wrote:
           | Also wankers, just saying...
        
         | JoshTriplett wrote:
         | They could put up a page for all three acquisitions, under
         | "www".
        
         | 0_____0 wrote:
         | Wiz and Waze are both Israeli companies. Not that suspicious, I
         | think it probably just sounds better in Hebrew.
        
           | darth_aardvark wrote:
           | Unlikely, since modern Hebrew doesn't have a letter for "w".
        
             | bonesss wrote:
             | Is it possible the foreignness makes 'W' appealing as it
             | signals cool modern tech alignment or something?
             | 
             | Like how 'X' attracts marketing and typographic knuckle-
             | draggers in English, or how all our AI companies have
             | butthole logos for reasons that only make sense if you
             | understand the underlying companies and culture.
        
               | darth_aardvark wrote:
               | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_of_Israel
               | #W
               | 
               | There's 5 of them, two of which happen to have been
               | acquired by Google. Fair to say it's likely a
               | coincidence.
               | 
               | Interestingly, they all use "vav vav" as the start of
               | their Hebrew names. "Vav" is the hebrew letter for V, so
               | it's kind of like using VV to represent W.
               | 
               | Maybe you're right, and it's a stylistic thing! My
               | knowledge of Hebrew ends in Hebrew school, and that
               | mostly focused on blessing and prayers over startup
               | naming.
        
               | edanm wrote:
               | Despite commenting on this literally five seconds ago in
               | the sibling comment, I hadn't made the connection that if
               | "vav" is V, then using "vav vav" is like "VV" which is
               | like "W". I wonder if this is a real thing.
               | 
               | In any case, I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence, I
               | don't _think_ it 's a stylistic thing, unless I'm missing
               | something.
        
             | 0_____0 wrote:
             | Oof, you got me there!
        
             | 1-more wrote:
             | It has vav which gets transliterated as v, u, o, or w. How
             | does the average modern Hebrew speaker pronounce these
             | company names in a sentence? Vix, Vayz, Viz? Is the "w"
             | transliteration an example of Latin to Hebrew
             | transliteration but not vice-versa?
        
               | edanm wrote:
               | It's pronounced the same as in English. Wiz, Waze, Wix.
               | It's written with "double vav" in Hebrew, not just a
               | single vav which would make it read as Viz.
        
               | 1-more wrote:
               | tysm
        
           | sokz wrote:
           | Wix too. Very interesting that founders of Waze and Wix have
           | Unit 8200 pedigree and Wiz co-founder was part of an elite
           | recruitment program in the IDF. On account of the mandatory
           | draft, it was bound to happen but those three companies have
           | very similar names as well.
        
             | alephnerd wrote:
             | Everyone in Israel who is entrepreneurial tries to self-
             | select into 8200 - it's the equivalent of American high
             | schoolers who want to enter VC and tech entrepreneurship
             | targeting CS@Stanford.
             | 
             | In Israel, the university you attended matters less than
             | the unit you served. For example, if you want to become a
             | senior politician, you join Sayeret Matkal and if you want
             | to become an academic you end up in Talpiot (which the
             | founders of Wiz are alums of).
             | 
             | 8200s success is largely due to a couple early exits by
             | 8200 alums (Gili Raanan, Nir Zuk, Shlomo Kramer) who were
             | biased in recruiting from their unit. 8200 alums aren't
             | better or worse than other Israelis - they just have a
             | better network.
             | 
             | And Israel has multiple SIGINT and offensive/defensive
             | cybersecurity units, all of whom created similar networks
             | as well.
        
               | sokz wrote:
               | Network effects wasn't what I considered although I
               | should have.
        
               | alephnerd wrote:
               | It's the same in the US as well - if you join the right
               | divisions and units and take advantage of educational
               | programs with the GI Bill, you will open a lot of doors
               | professionally speaking.
        
               | bigyabai wrote:
               | I'm sure the Room 641A employees have an excellent
               | professional network, but I'm still going to judge them
               | on a personal level.
        
         | kps wrote:
         | Title should be: _Wiz Waz_
        
         | paxys wrote:
         | RIP Wave
        
         | omoikane wrote:
         | There aren't that many Alphabet acquisitions[1] that start with
         | "W", compared to all the companies that start with "A":
         | 1 2           1 6           1 @          28 A          15 B
         | 8 C          18 D           6 E          10 F          10 G
         | 4 H           9 I           5 J           5 K           8 L
         | 14 M           8 N          10 O          22 P           4 Q
         | 13 R          27 S          12 T           3 U           5 V
         | 9 W           1 Y           8 Z
         | 
         | Normalizing these counts with respect to English character
         | frequencies that appear in text[2], the top three unexpected
         | company initials appear to be "Q", "J", and "P".
         | 
         | [1]
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
         | 
         | [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency
        
       | whobre wrote:
       | For a second I thought it was Woz who was joining Google...
        
         | giancarlostoro wrote:
         | Maybe someone typod in an email "I want you to buy woz" the i
         | and o are next to each other on the keyboard. ;)
        
         | duckmysick wrote:
         | I thought it was WiZ of the lightbulbs fame. Figured they were
         | going all in their smart home approach. But yeah, the other Wiz
         | makes more sense.
        
       | seanieb wrote:
       | Congrats 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.
        
         | 999900000999 wrote:
         | Someone else will rise to compete.
         | 
         | Then Google will buy them too.
        
         | alephnerd wrote:
         | > It's a pity going public isn't worth it anymore.
         | 
         | Israeli VCs tend to be uninterested in IPOs in general - too
         | much of an operational headache and it's difficult to exit a
         | position quickly.
         | 
         | In most cases an IPO isn't worth it _for founders_ because an
         | IPO means you lose operational control. It 's basically the
         | "Rich versus Kings" dichotomy [0].
         | 
         | Edit: can't reply
         | 
         | > you can control the share allocations going into an IPO to
         | give you solid voting power
         | 
         | Investors do not like that - they want some degree of
         | operational control in order to right the ship if needed.
         | 
         | In the early 2010s, IPOs like Tesla and Facebook were on terms
         | that gave outside investors little control on operations and
         | that's why Musk and even Zuckerberg to a certain extent can
         | choose to reorient to a new boondoggle with little-to-no
         | investor pushback.
         | 
         | In 2026 if you want to IPO, it will be on the terms of JPMC,
         | GS, etc who are underwriting the IPO.
         | 
         | In a private company, it's easier for an investor to offload or
         | get bought out of their position if the founder wants to
         | maintain operational control.
         | 
         | > While you're accountable to a board of directors and
         | theoretically accountable to stockholders, in reality
         | management often runs the show
         | 
         | In publicly listed companies, it is magnitudes more difficult
         | to build a board that is aligned with you at a personal level
         | versus in a private company because both the board and
         | strategic shareholders will act as checks against you.
         | 
         | > If you're acquired, you're giving up ownership and you tend
         | to lose operational control unless you have agreements in place
         | that say otherwise
         | 
         | An acquisition happens when both the founders and investors
         | want to exit, and has less operational overhead and due
         | dilligence versus going thru the process of an IPO in the US.
         | 
         | > This is counterintuitive to me
         | 
         | Well, that's the reality. This is why Stripe, Databricks, and
         | others have remained private for so long despite having hit
         | IPO-level metrics years ago. If you're already generating high
         | 9 to low 10 figures a year in revenue, you can remain private
         | indefinetly and as a founder you would be able to give yourself
         | a compensation package comparable to a public company, but with
         | much less oversight and stress.
         | 
         | > Interesting, why is this more true of Israeli VC's as opposed
         | to VC's in other markets
         | 
         | Significantly less capital.
         | 
         | "Big" funds like YL Ventures, Cyberstarts, and JVP only have an
         | AUM of $800M, $1.4B, and $1.9B respectively.
         | 
         | And if you were going to IPO in the US _anyhow_ , why would you
         | even invest in an Israeli fund, which wouldn't have enough
         | people with experience for an IPO.
         | 
         | And the handful of Israeli IPOs that happened like SentinelOne
         | or CyberArk weren't that successful.
         | 
         | [0] - https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38550
        
           | moregrist wrote:
           | > In most cases an IPO isn't worth it for founders because an
           | IPO means you lose operational control.
           | 
           | This is counterintuitive to me.
           | 
           | If you're acquired, you're giving up ownership and you tend
           | to lose operational control unless you have agreements in
           | place that say otherwise.
           | 
           | With an IPO it seems like you have a better chance to retain
           | control: you can control the share allocations going into an
           | IPO to give you solid voting power. While you're accountable
           | to a board of directors and theoretically accountable to
           | stockholders, in reality management often runs the show, at
           | least until the board runs out of patience with bad earnings.
        
             | SilverElfin wrote:
             | The problem is if you go public as a small company, it can
             | be hard to survive. You need to meet expectations every
             | time you do an earnings call or watch your stock get
             | crushed, and it'll never be given another chance. The
             | burdens are also a lot higher in terms of the cost.
             | 
             | You don't really see companies under $10 billion going
             | public anymore. That may continue to be the case, but it's
             | terrible for entrepreneurs.
        
           | femiagbabiaka wrote:
           | > Israeli VCs tend to be uninterested in IPOs in general -
           | too much of an operational headache and it's difficult to
           | exit a position quickly.
           | 
           | Interesting, why is this more true of Israeli VC's as opposed
           | to VC's in other markets?
        
         | dlev_pika wrote:
         | > will result in less competition
         | 
         | The system working as intended.
         | 
         | "Competition is for losers" - Peter Thiel
        
           | tipiirai wrote:
           | Thiel is an idiot
        
             | Bombthecat wrote:
             | But very rich...
        
               | adamking wrote:
               | Rich!= smart
        
               | atmosx wrote:
               | One has very little to do with the other, contrary to
               | popular belief. Exhibit A from 338 BC:
               | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutus_(play)
        
             | palmotea wrote:
             | >> "Competition is for losers" - Peter Thiel
             | 
             | > Thiel is an idiot
             | 
             | Sounds more like he's selfish, perhaps to an unusual
             | degree. Monopoly is great for the monopolist. For everyone
             | else? Not so much.
        
             | ToucanLoucan wrote:
             | Maybe we should examine as an industry why so many mediocre
             | men get elevated to positions of incredible power and run
             | great businesses into the ground.
        
               | Borg3 wrote:
               | Connections... It was always like this..
        
               | nsjdjdekkddk wrote:
               | surely you can make a couple billion from mothing given
               | you are so smart
        
               | Flatterer3544 wrote:
               | Who said you need to be great in an area to tell the
               | difference between competent and incompetent?
               | 
               | While it helps, it doesn't take a genius to tell the
               | difference. Picking the great from the great apart,
               | that'd be another story all together.
        
               | lkjdsklf wrote:
               | The same way mediocre men have been elevated for
               | thousands of years.
               | 
               | A combination of being in the right place at the right
               | time and connections to people with money
        
               | atmosx wrote:
               | Luck (primarily) and connections. We feel psychologically
               | safe believing there is some determinism _in the world_.
               | But there's none. Studies show that you can have 140 IQ
               | and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.
        
               | gbacon wrote:
               | > _Luck (primarily)_
               | 
               | This is an extraordinary claim. What is your
               | extraordinary evidence?
               | 
               | Why didn't it rain today? Good luck! Why was Michael
               | Jordan so skillful at basketball? Just good luck. Why is
               | Linux better than Windows? Good luck! Why did VMS fall
               | off? Bad luck. Why does 2 + 2 = 4? I guess just good
               | luck.
               | 
               | These are all laughably incurious, superstitious answers.
               | Other factors must be at play. Yes, identifying them may
               | require hard thinking and concentration.
               | 
               | Otherwise, what is democracy other than selecting the
               | luckiest? We already had strange women lying in ponds
               | distributing swords for that -- and much cheaper and
               | quicker to boot.
               | 
               | > _Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up
               | homeless if circumstances are poor._
               | 
               | We've likely all known people who were book smart but
               | didn't have good walking-around sense. Everyone knows
               | others who make poor or destructive choices. The
               | interpersonal skills, soft skills, and emotional
               | intelligence being dismissed in this thread as mere "luck
               | and connections" may be severely lacking. The person may
               | have poor mental health or addiction.
               | 
               | Are you using determinism in the automata theory sense or
               | some other?
        
               | thwarted wrote:
               | Luck here isn't referring to some invisible dice roll
               | whose randomness can not be explained or is just a
               | correlation (like no rain on your wedding day would be),
               | it's refers to variables that the person can not
               | influence. Being born into a rich family is lucky for
               | that baby, and the baby can't have done anything about
               | it.
        
         | SilverElfin wrote:
         | The lack of competition is at this point choice American
         | politicians and the voters. They should be breaking up mega
         | corporations or at least taxing them at really high rates.
         | 
         | Instead, it looks like all the existing incumbents will just
         | continue to rule over society. They have capital, monopolies,
         | and the moats of distribution channels and contracts with their
         | current customers. There is no fair competition - they'll just
         | replicate your clever product easily.
        
         | chrisandchris wrote:
         | Maybe, or Wiz will suddenly appear on the graveyard just
         | because reasons? Who knows :)
        
         | globular-toast wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | kolanos wrote:
       | Didn't this happen a year ago? [0] Or did this deal just take a
       | year?
       | 
       | [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518
        
         | eloisant wrote:
         | Did you read the article? First line: "Nearly a year ago, we
         | shared that Wiz would be joining Google."
        
           | SoberSky wrote:
           | Who reads articles these days?
        
             | officeplant wrote:
             | Just the bots so that HN posters can ask them for slop
             | replies to stuff they don't understand.
        
       | love2read wrote:
       | Extra shade thrown at MoltBook (listed first) which was recently
       | acq by Meta.
        
       | pbiggar wrote:
       | Good time to remember that Wiz' VC was accused of paying bribes
       | to CISOs to buy their portfolio's software (of which Wiz is one).
       | 
       | https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-b...
       | 
       | > Two security executives told Forbes they rejected overtures
       | from Raanan's team after hearing about the firm's "menu" of
       | compensation. "I was completely aghast. It was against my
       | principles," one said.
        
       | StartupsWala wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | antonvs wrote:
         | Google has quite a bit of support for other clouds already. The
         | managed Kubernetes in Gcloud can run workloads on other clouds,
         | for example.
        
           | verdverm wrote:
           | They all pretty much support cloud agnostic WIF any which way
           | at this point. With that out of the way, the rest gets
           | easier.
        
         | eitally wrote:
         | They very likely will continue being cloud-agnostic, just like
         | they did with Mandiant Consulting.
        
       | tptacek wrote:
       | This is the announcement of the completion of an acquisition that
       | began a year ago.
        
         | tomhow wrote:
         | _Google to buy Wiz for $32B_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518 - March 2025 (845
         | comments)
        
       | vvpan wrote:
       | No reactions beside: monopolies are bad for innovation and why we
       | cannot have nice things. You might hear some people say "but
       | these big companies innovate". They were mostly done innovating
       | two decades ago, now they just snuff out innovation and
       | acquisition is one of their main tools.
        
         | mainecoder wrote:
         | well if you are waiting for the monopolies to be broken don't
         | wait they will not be broken monopolies are here to stay,
         | capitalistism for the rich and socialism also for the rich they
         | best thing you can do is be rich yourself
        
       | aerodog wrote:
       | Wasn't this acquisition just a bit money laundering operation
       | from Israel?
        
         | yoavm wrote:
         | Nope, but you might want to check your sources if that's what
         | you've been told.
        
         | cbHXBY1D wrote:
         | We'll never know but it's quite likely that is the case:
         | https://updates.techforpalestine.org/wiz-and-google-the-deal...
        
       | bojangleslover wrote:
       | Didn't this happen a long time ago?
        
         | cimi_ wrote:
         | It was announced almost a year ago:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518
         | 
         | But it was subject to regulatory approval, that's been
         | completed now.
        
       | 85392_school wrote:
       | This isn't a new observation [0] but this means Google will now
       | have two Wizes, since Wiz is also the name of their internal web
       | framework [1].
       | 
       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43399077
       | 
       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41092039
        
       | myth_drannon wrote:
       | Interesting fact regarding the sale. Because the founders are
       | about to receive $2.4B US, Israeli tax authorities got involved,
       | and the tax on the sale as an exception will be paid in US
       | dollars directly without converting to shekels due to concerns it
       | might crash the US/NIS exchange rate (with $US already
       | historically low).
        
       | hollow-moe wrote:
       | Joins the graveyard in 6 months tops
        
         | shredswap wrote:
         | we don't need to be pessimistic about every other thing.
        
           | sen wrote:
           | When it comes to Google it's not being pessimistic, it's just
           | being realistic.
        
             | kartakrak wrote:
             | 6 months is even generous and optimistic
        
             | ex-aws-dude wrote:
             | Its boring though?
             | 
             | Pessimism is so lame and uninteresting for discussions
        
               | RobRivera wrote:
               | Are you not entertained?
        
             | miltava wrote:
             | Maybe for most of their acquisitions (but I don't know).
             | But they do get acquisitions right: YouTube, android,
             | double click, Waze...
        
               | eitally wrote:
               | And more relevant, Mandiant.
        
               | anon84873628 wrote:
               | Or Apigee. Or Looker. These comments are tiring.
        
               | paganel wrote:
               | 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.
        
             | nszceta wrote:
             | https://killedbygoogle.com/
        
             | ukblewis wrote:
             | This is such BS... Google also bought YouTube for a bargain
             | price early on... and that is far from the only successful
             | purchase that Google has had
        
           | PunchyHamster wrote:
           | You're right, I'm giving it 5 years
        
       | sass_muffin wrote:
       | Are they going to call it G-Wiz?
        
         | dominotw wrote:
         | hopefully not Gizz
        
           | Andrex wrote:
           | Maybe WiG?
        
             | verdverm wrote:
             | wAIz would be confusing to me
        
       | toephu2 wrote:
       | 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).
        
         | whyage wrote:
         | What's wrong with the name Wiz?
        
           | zxexz wrote:
           | Nothing wrong with Google taking a Wiz
        
           | girvo wrote:
           | Whizz is onomatopoeia (well, ish) for urinating in English
        
             | ahofmann wrote:
             | And "Witz" means "joke" in german.
        
               | tw-20260303-001 wrote:
               | Yeah, but it's pronounced differently. Germans are bad at
               | English pronunciation. A couple of examples: BBQ ~>
               | ,,barbicue", Pampers ~> ,,pempas".
        
             | normie3000 wrote:
             | Billy Whizz is rhyming slang for Jimmy Riddle.
        
           | adrianmonk wrote:
           | 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.
        
           | blell wrote:
           | I'm the wiz, I'm the wiz! And noooooobody beats me!!!
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | What is that animation of the cloud on their home page, tapping
       | and blocking a cloud
        
         | desolate_muffin wrote:
         | I don't know, but it makes me uncomfortable
        
       | jerojero wrote:
       | Getting old is seeing every single successful platform be bought
       | out by one of the big ones.
        
         | lanthissa wrote:
         | theres a famous painting about this
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
        
       | cbHXBY1D wrote:
       | 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
        
       | PunchyHamster wrote:
       | Any bets on when it hits https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?
       | 
       | I give it 5 years
        
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