[thegrizzlyking]

Most likely reason is FTC. Wiz integrates with big 4 cloud providers. No way FTC is allowing Google to take control. JD Vance's nomination and support for current FTC chair(Lina Khan) doesn't help.

Current FTC is good(personal opinion) from anti trust point of view but maybe bad for startup exits[0].

[0] https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1812978264484552987

[neurotixz]

Wiz has tons of competitors, and Microsoft is one of them, so are Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Crowstrike, SentinelOne, etc... Wiz is definately a leader but are in no way a monopoly, so I do not see this as an FTC play to stop the deal.

[disgruntledphd2]

I think the antitrust argument is more about preventing Big tech from getting even bigger rather than directly related to Wiz.

[titanomachy]

If they’re actually worth anything near $23B they can just go public. I’m sure they’ll be fine haha