Assaf Rappaport, CEO of Wiz, at Web Summit
Assaf Rappaport, CEO of Wiz, wants the company to keep growing independently.
  • Wiz doesn't want to be taken over by Google, the cybersecurity company's CEO wrote to employees on Monday.
  • Instead of Google's $23 billion deal, Assaf Rappaport said the company wants to go public.
  • The deal would have been Google's largest acquisition.

Google's plan to buy cloud security startup Wiz just fell apart.

Wiz walked away from a $23 billion deal to be acquired by the Big Tech giant, in what would have been Google's largest-ever deal.