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Nobody Beats Wiz: Meet The Hyper-Aggressive, $10 Billion Startup Shaking Up Cloud Security - Forbes   

Weaving his way through Tel Aviv’s Pride parade in June, Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport looks uneasy. Slim and dressed unassumingly in a gray T-shirt and slacks, he’s with close friends—cofounder Yinon Costica and chief marketing officer Raaz Herzberg—but also a security detail. An hour before, an intruder tried to confront Rappaport in his office, then waited for him in ambush in the courtyard below, motive unknown. Now, an armed plainclothes guard follows just behind as Rappaport navigates the throng.

Out of nowhere, a stranger calls his name. Rappaport ten­ses, but this person just wants a selfie; in Hebrew, he says his mother is a big fan. Relieved, the CEO obliges and is then back on the move. He doesn’t fully exhale until he and Costica, Wiz’s head of product, reach a quiet nearby alley and stop for some jachnun, a Yemenite Jewish pastry. “I’d prefer it wasn’t just the moms who are fans,” Rappaport, 39, jokes.

In Israel, where Wiz was founded, such quasi-celebrity is no shock. Nearly a decade ago, Rappaport, Costica and two friends sold their security startup, Adallom, for $320 million to Microsoft, where Rappaport helped the company dethrone Google as Dun & Bradstreet’s “best place to work” in Israel. But in just three years since leaving that job to get the band back together for another startup, he has emerged as a globally relevant tech player, too: the CEO of one of software’s buzziest unicorns, invited to rub shoulders with OpenAI’s Sam Altman at Sun Valley’s exclusive confab of moguls, attending Formula 1 races as a VIP guest of Amazon and skipping famed VC firm Sequoia’s CEO summit to hang backstage with the Chainsmokers in Las Vegas.

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