Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b18wjfk1a

by lopkeny12ko • 3 years ago

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klysm3• 3 years ago

If this is indeed an excel mistake (which I strongly suspect), I wonder if it is one of the more expensive ones.

meepmorp• 3 years ago

What makes you think it's an excel mistake? I didn't see anything particularly suggestive in the article itself, so perhaps you know more than is mentioned?

vpribish2• 3 years ago

If it was indeed an off-by-one error (hard to see why not), I wonder if it is one of the more embarrassing ones.

If it was indeed a spirit-medium con (who could say otherwise), I wonder if it is one for the ages.

If it was indeed a Feng Shui conflict (many might say it was), I wonder if it is one of the more consequential ones.

wsinks• 3 years ago

I'm unfamiliar with a spirit-medium con and a Feng Shui conflict. Do you mean just a 'medium sized con game' and Feng Shui meaning that things just didn't line up in the ultimate vision?

I'd love to know more.

ethbr12• 3 years ago

> This discovery even led the company to change its ARR calculation method to reflect reality more accurately and also take into account scenarios of reduced usage of its solutions by customers.

It sounds like they were using an ARR model that failed to take into account partial usage, in a significant way.

klysm3• 3 years ago

I don't understand why you need a model for ARR

lenerdenator• 3 years ago

"You can do that?!"- Elon, probably

ethbr12• 3 years ago

"Yes, remember when we defined due diligence for you, before you decided to go another way?"- Elon's lawyers, probably

Lord_Zero• 3 years ago

"What is due diligence?" - Elon, probably

class4behavior2• 3 years ago

Due diligence usually refers to the review of the asset you're trying to acquire. There weren't any significant surprises about Twitter's state. Elon's issue was Elon.

darth_avocado• 3 years ago

He waived it to look cool.

ok123456• 3 years ago

Then he complained about 'bots' as if he was trying to do his due diligence after the fact.

leoqa• 3 years ago

Are there any successful security firms? They all seem to be burning money.

klysm3• 3 years ago

I’m convinced most of their products are a scam. You can’t buy security after you’ve done a shitty job engineering everything

reducesuffering• 3 years ago

Crowdstrike

figassis• 3 years ago

I sometimes view security firms as I view Wordpress security plugins. Back when I did Wordpress consulting I went through most security plugins and realized they were pretty much scams. Obfuscate some names and hashes and show some checks. They would run as part of your app, so your servers would need to be beefier. But you’d soon realize putting your server behind a waf, and hardening your server and db and generally following best practices got you 100% there. But novice developers felt very safe with these plugins and every website I fixed that had them was a mess. They didn’t understand what the plugins were doing, only that they showed green checkmarks. Security firms like to show green checkmarks.

ThePowerOfFuet• 3 years ago

The link is dead.

guyzyl• 3 years ago

Long live the link

Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence

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