brutus1213

Was thinking about US vs. Canada as a place to do a tech startup. Historically, it has been a no-contest. While Canada offers free healthcare and some better social services (quality has reduced significantly in recent years due to chronic underfunding and increase in population .. lets ignore that for a bit), the US enjoyed an array of advantages .. better tax incentives, better VC funding, better labor pool. But given how badly screwed up Sec 174 is, is Canada a better place to bootstrap?

There was a recent rumour in the news about Google making an offer to buy Wiz for 23 billion dollars, and an incredible (perhaps BS) story of Wiz turning it down.

Now, for some acquisitions such as WhatsApp/Instagram that have a ridiculous number of users pre-acquisition, it makes sense. You can't assuredly build that sort of product-market fit on the first go .. so buying it when others have achieved it makes sense. But cloud security??? Google already has smart engineers and supporting professionals .. couldn't they just match Wiz's features? I don't get how such a big acquisition was even on the table.

P.S. After the CloudStrike incident, I really wonder how this whole space will evolve. Wonder if that threw a wrench in the Wiz-Alphabet story.