🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-07-18
Throwback Thursday covers past predictions and news coverage, highlighting the evolution of a cybersecurity success story.
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🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-07-18
Throwback Thursday will likely become a format based upon Fudge Sunday Weekly newsletter sections for "Shot and Chaser". Basically, this is a look back at a prior prediction or past news coverage and how that worked out in the present.
shot-and-chaser (2024) by Jay Cuthrell
the on again off again blog of Jay Cuthrell and Fudge Sunday 🤔💡🤯🤓 weekly newsletter
Past examples of "Shot and Chaser" included embedding content from Twitter (as it was known at the time) in the form of a specific tweet. As I come across Twitter URLs in my newsletter archive, I am finding that the change in Twitter ownership, degradation of URLs (link rot), and the transition between different newsletter platforms has made much of this content difficult or, sadly, impossible to follow.
For example, if you were to look back a few years or even a few months, you’d probably have wondering how many M&A stories would be happening at the rate they appear to be in 2024.
Wiz - At just over 4 years of age, this toddler has become a cybersecurity business growth success engine that has reportedly attracted the attention of Google.
Three months ago I highlighted a quote from the CEO of Wiz.
Jay Cuthrell on LinkedIn: Wiz CEO: 2024 Will Be the Year of Acquisitions
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"So definitely we believe that 2024, for us, will be the year of acquisitions"
-- Assaf Rappaport, CEO of Wiz
Three months later… a possible shot and chaser.
Techmeme: Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B; Wiz raised $1B at a $12B valuation in May 2024 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
By Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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