Leaving Microsoft felt like the "most horrible decision ever," Wiz's founder says

Assaf Rappaport said leaving Microsoft felt like the "most horrible decision ever."

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00:00In the first couple of months, it felt like the worst timing ever to start a company.

00:04I left Microsoft on March 2020, and it felt like the most horrible decision ever.

00:08Like, you know, I was in the mothership.

00:10I truly, I love Microsoft.

00:11I had a great job, great impact on security, and decided to leave, by the way, with the

00:17founders that I have.

00:19And then we're living a perfect time in March 2020, and then nobody picks the phone.

00:22Nobody answers us.

00:24In hindsight, maybe Philip will agree with me that if you pinpoint a time in history,

00:29probably March 2020, that's the time to start a cloud security.

00:32But I would say that the advantage that we have, as I said, Wiz didn't start cloud

00:37security with Wiz.

00:38Actually, a decade before was that.

00:40I think that one of the advantages that we had is like learning from the mistakes of

00:45the others.

00:45And that's kind of the ability to use the cloud-native abilities, actually, to solve

00:52the cloud security problem, which sounds like now very easy to understand.

00:56But it wasn't the case when we started the company.