[Alextigtig]

It seems a bit odd to me that this company grew out of X, as I was under the impression that projects in the "Moonshot Factory" were more ambitious. From what I gather, this sounds mostly like an analytics org for enterprise, not something that might change the world (e.g. Waymo, Loon, Project Ara).

Perhaps X is taking on less radical projects than I imagined. Would love to hear others' viewpoints on this as well, though.

[puzzle]

Mike Wiacek was the manager of the Google team that worked on APT and nation state attacks in the wake of Aurora. Think of the Gmail notices about state-sponsored attacks on your account, which required new detection tools and technologies. I doubt you'll find many groups with the same experience and expertise.

[vl]

Apart from this, it's also strange that:

1) It's not a part of core enterprise GSuite / GCP offerings.

2) It's announced on Medium, and not on usual Alphabet channels.

[sigstoat]

maybe they had some more radical project, and this was the only commercializable thing to come out of it?

[petra]

Not everything has to look "sexy". If it will reduce time to detect computer infections from months to days, like they're implying, it may be a big thing.