Ricardo@Ric_RTP
Google just acquired an Israeli Trojan horse to STEAL clients from AWS and Microsoft.
$32 billion. All cash. For a cybersecurity startup called Wiz.
It’s the largest acquisition in Google’s history.
But nobody’s talking about what they ACTUALLY bought...
Here’s why this is way bigger than you think:
Wiz protects over half the Fortune 100.
Their clients run on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle. The platform scans every workload, every vulnerability, every misconfiguration across ALL of those clouds.
Meaning Wiz has a god-level view of how the world's biggest companies use their competitors' infrastructure.
And Google just bought that view for $32 billion.
Now think about what Google Cloud's biggest problem has been for YEARS...
They're stuck in third place. 13% market share. AWS has 30%. Azure has 20%. Google has been hemorrhaging money trying to close that gap and nothing has worked.
Wiz changes that equation overnight.
Because Wiz doesn't just protect cloud environments. It MAPS them.
It knows which companies are running what workloads, where their vulnerabilities are, and where they're overpaying.
Google now has a real-time blueprint of its competitors' biggest customers.
And it gets crazier:
The 4 founders of Wiz previously built Adallom, a cloud security startup that Microsoft acquired for $320 million in 2015. After that acquisition, those same founders ran Microsoft's entire Azure Cloud Security Group.
They literally built the security infrastructure that Azure runs on today.
Then they left. Started Wiz. Built a product that works across every cloud. Got 45% of the Fortune 100 as customers. Most of those customers are on AWS and Azure.
And now they just handed ALL of that to Google.
Google promised Wiz will remain "multi-cloud" and continue working with AWS, Azure, and Oracle. That's the public story.
But here's the game theory every enterprise CTO is thinking about right now:
If you're running sensitive workloads on AWS or Azure and your security layer is now owned by your competitor, how comfortable are you?
Google doesn't need to do anything shady. The PERCEPTION alone is enough to start shifting enterprise decisions. And that's worth way more than $32 billion.
But there's another layer...
Wiz went from $0 to $100 million in revenue in 18 months. Fastest software company in history to hit that mark.
By 2025, they were at $750 million. The founders said no to Google's first offer of $23 billion in 2024 because they wanted to IPO.
9 months later, they said yes to $32 billion.
What changed? The IPO market collapsed.
Tech IPOs dried up. Valuations got slashed. Wiz's leadership looked at the math and realized $32 billion in guaranteed cash beats an uncertain public offering in a hostile market.
Google paid a 39% premium over the rejected offer. A multiple of 45-65x revenue. For a company founded 5 years ago by 4 guys who met in Israeli military intelligence.
This is the BIGGEST tech acquisition of an Israeli-founded company ever. Bigger than Intel buying Mobileye for $15.3 billion. Bigger than anything in Israeli tech history.
And Google is betting it will be worth every penny.
Because the cloud war isn't about compute anymore. It's about TRUST. And the company that controls the security layer controls where enterprises put their most sensitive data.
Google just bought the keys to every major cloud customer on the planet.
The question is whether AWS and Microsoft let them keep using those keys.
What do you think?