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What’s there to "dEcOdE"? They received a mega shit ton of seed investment, super aggressive acquisition/acquihire strategy, monopolized the market (so to speak
by xyst 2y ago
What’s there to "dEcOdE"? They received a mega shit ton of seed investment, super aggressive acquisition/acquihire strategy, monopolized the market (so to speak), then gets gobbled up by big G for a $32B (G cut so many jobs to get the leverage necessary to fund this acquisition).
Could G have _competed_ in the same space without Wiz? Yes.
Could other cloud providers have done the same from a first party perspective rather than rely on a shitty third party product suite? Yes.
"Journalism" like this make me lose faith in this industry. There’s no "secret sauce". There’s nothing special. It’s the same old tired formula that billionaire class have been using:
1) extract as much value from labor
2) prep company for unicorn by getting investor buddies in an investment frenzy
3) buy up other smaller companies to appear bigger
4) then wait for some fossil at big tech to take the bite and reap massive returns for the bois
This is more of a finance bro piece to be honest.