When Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica, and Roy Reznik were riding a bus to their Israeli army base nearly a decade ago, they weren’t just swapping stories. They were shaping what would become one of the biggest exits in venture capital history.

It's also a lesson in not accepting the first offer — the company turned down Google's offer of $23 billion last summer. Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport wrote in a blog post that joining Google Cloud will "enable us to execute and innovate even faster" as both businesses "are fueled by the belief that cloud security needs to be easier,

The proposed $32 billion deal to combine Wiz with Google Cloud is poised to ‘accelerate our rate of innovation’ than the company could on its own, Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport wrote in a post.