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Founder-story archive · 2026-09-30 · 64 seconds

Wiz and Google

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Agreement price is not the same as adjusted acquisition cost

Google announced a $32 billion agreement on March 18, 2025, subject to closing adjustments. Alphabet later reported completion on March 11, 2026 for $29.5 billion after adjustments and excluding post-combination compensation arrangements. The video’s “paid $32 billion” shorthand omits that distinction. Its July 2024-to-March 2025 negotiation sequence is also less than a year; the two-year framing corresponds more closely to the later close, not the new offer. The “fastest ever” revenue claim is not established by these sources.

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0:00This founder turned down $23 billion
0:02from Google. Two years later, Google
0:04paid $32 billion. Assaf Rapaport grew up
0:06in Israel and spent his 20s in Unit
0:088200, the army's cyber intelligence
0:10unit. In 2012, he started Adallom, a
0:13cloud security company. Microsoft bought
0:14it in 2015 for $320 million. He ran
0:17Microsoft's cloud security division for
0:195 years. Then, January 2020, days before
0:22the pandemic, he left with three
0:23co-founders and started Wiz. The idea?
0:26One scan that shows a company every weak
0:28spot across its whole cloud. It hit $100
0:30million in revenue in 18 months, faster
0:33than any software company in history. By
0:352024, Wiz was worth $12 billion. In July
0:382024, Google offered $23 billion.
0:41Rapaport said no. He thought the company
0:43could be worth far more, and he wanted
0:45an IPO. March 2025, Google came back
0:48with $32 billion in cash, the largest
0:50acquisition in its history. The deal
0:52closed in March 2026. Rapaport still
0:54brings his dog Mika to the office. The
0:57company that said no to Google became
0:58the [music] biggest thing Google ever
1:00bought. Follow Vibe Economies for more.

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