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aswerty | 11 months ago

Wiz seems to only be about 4 years old, as per wikipedia. That valuation in such a short amount of time surely must be some kind of record? Or am I missing something?

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InkCanon|11 months ago

~5 years by now. But there is a bit of fine print. The founders all founded another cloud security company in 2010, which was acquired by Microsoft. They were all graduates of Israel's famous Unit 8200. So while the literal company was founded in 2020, it is very likely a lot of both the knowledge, expertise and quite possibly product was already in development before it.

rvnx|11 months ago

Not sure if it's a very wise move to hire foreign intelligence offers and give them access to the core of your tech products and to the customers data.

shmatt|11 months ago

yes, every 8200 founder i know already has the next product ready to launch in alpha the day after the time limit on their previous acquisition runs out

myth_drannon|11 months ago

only 2 out of 3 are 8200 alumni.