It took some serious nerve for Wiz to walk away from Google's $23B offer

To me this is a good sign: we should disincentivize bigtech gobbling up any competitors. Instead of being supported only on GCP we will see the product supported/adopted on several platforms!

Or google was going to walk away from wiz and wiz got ahead of them

Good on them. This decision proves they legitimately care about their business and want to see it succeed. I hope others follow their example and realize that selling to Big Tech shouldn't be the default answer.

I think owners are taking notice that Google will tank their business and instead are just continuing to work on growing it themselves.

We need a way to keep mega corps from just abusing their monopoly positions or their size to keep growing without any effort or risk. Something about Google or others swallowing up $20 billion dollar companies feels wrong in how it distorts competition in our economy.

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Something about this sounds fishy to me.