Google CEO Sundar Pichai to employees on company’s largest acquisition ever: We don’t make deals like this every day, so why, and why now

Google is acquiring cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion, marking the company’s largest acquisition in its history, and CEO Sundar Pichai knows that it’s not a deal you make every day, thus he and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reached out to employees, telling them “why, and why now” in internal memos, per Business Insider.

“We don’t make deals like this every day, so I wanted to share a little more about why, and why now,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in an email to employees, emphasizing the strategic importance of the acquisition. Pichai then touched upon some of the points that were explained in the blog post made public, and he also then referred to Thomas Kurian’s, the CEO of Google Cloud, email to staff.