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by sofixa 701 days ago
Crowdstrike does endpoint security (user's PCs and servers too for checkbox ticking reasons).

Wiz does cloud security. The same thing as Crowdstrike, but runs in your cloud environment (AWS/GCP/Azure) to detect issues there.

Different customers, different profiles, different costs and prices.

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I just don't see why that should have $23B market cap as opposed to $230M. A small team can challenge them with similar product.
Because they're making 500mm arr

At the very least I would expect to see a 5 billion market cap, and if their growth rate is good (4 year old company, seems to be) it should be higher than that

https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-startup-wiz-went-from-zero-to-a...

Throw ... CRWD into that pool of Cloud workload competitor...

https://www.crowdstrike.com/platform/cloud-security/cwpp/

That BSOD also impacting instances of Windows in AWS, Azure, and GCP.