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kats 89 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

Yeah, but Instagram and WhatsApp have billions of users. Everybody has heard of them. Advertising on Instagram generates revenue.

Wiz is a SaaS b2b startup. Even on a forum for startups most people haven't heard of them.

Wiz reportedly has a revenue of 750m. It would take Google 30 years or more to break even on this deal. But like all bs startups Wiz will fade into irrelevancy 6 months after being acquired.

Google is getting completely scammed.

nosefrog 89 days ago | [–]

Nobody thought Instagram and WhatsApp were good acquisitions at the time.

askafriend 89 days ago | | [–]

Instagram was roughly 10 people when it got bought, had less than 30M users and $0 in revenue.

totallyunknown 89 days ago | [–]

This: "But like all bs startups Wiz will fade into irrelevancy 6 months after being acquire"

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