[Marsymars]

> You could hire several thousand best in class engineers

How easy is this? Especially if you're doing it on an accelerated timeline, it seems like you'd have to pay above market to poach thousands of best-in-class engineers, and then you're stuck with higher salary expenses forever.

[more_corn]

Google already employs some of the best software engineers in the world. In fact they’ve been laying off thousands of them. Google, like most big companies struggles to innovate because succeeding at a big company and making something fresh and new are different and often mutually exclusive skills. If they could have built it themselves they would have.

[happyopossum]

> In fact they’ve been laying off thousands of them

Citation please? Last layoff at Google of any significance was over 2 years ago in the post-pandemic cleanup era..

[bmicraft]

Apparently they tried to acquire Wiz last year already, which means they've been thinking about it probably since before they let all those engineers go.