On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan, Sean O'Kane, and I were joined by Shardul Shah, a partner at Wiz's largest shareholder Index Ventures. Shah walked us through his history with Wiz, which extends before Wiz itself ' he previously backed Adallom, the startup previously founded by Wiz's Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik. Read an excerpt of our conversation, edited for length and clarity, below. Shah kicked things off by noting, half-jokingly, that we may have been underselling things by calling the acquisition one of our deals of the week. Shardul: And more critically, it's no surprise that it's Wiz. Wiz is at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend. And those are central today in light of the AI era where every single workload needs to be secured. So we're super proud that we were the largest shareholder in the company. And yes, I think it's at least [the] deal of the month. Shardul: Is it six years or 16, is a...
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