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Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

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Last discussed Oct 2, 2026

A cybersecurity company that provides network security, cloud security, and endpoint protection solutions.

How Palo Alto Networks compares

2 creators weighed in
CrowdStrike Direct rival
endpoint security company

Both are cybersecurity winners trading at premium valuations after the SaaS downturn.

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2 creators
John Coogan

"Palo Alto Networks is also on a tear. Palo Alto Networks over the past year is up 121%. It's a $320 billion company."

Mentioned alongside CrowdStrike as cybersecurity winners in the post-SaaS apocalypse landscape

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Everett Randle

"Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, DataDog, Palantir, all these companies trade above 15 times NTM revenue again."

Grouped with CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, DataDog, Palantir as premium SaaS companies contrasted with struggling ones like Wix

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David Friedberg
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"Companies like Palo Alto Networks, I think the investment in this space... Fortune 50 CEOs are very worried about cyber defense."

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Tom Bilyeu
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"You've got Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Visa, Mastercard."

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John Coogan
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vs: Mentioned alongside CrowdStrike as cybersecurity winners in the post-SaaS apo...

"Palo Alto Networks is also on a tear. Palo Alto Networks over the past year is up 121%. It's a $320 billion company."

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"Very tightly controlled through a few companies like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks and a few other companies that got access to those models."

Salim Ismail
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"You talk to the CEOs of all the cyber labs — Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, or any of those — and they'll tell you that the way we do cyber has not changed in 20 years."

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David Sacks
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Used for: Evaluating Chinese AI models for cybersecurity risk

"It's worth watching Kimi K3 and if it could hack your system. Palo Alto Networks is checking it out, other people checking it out."

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Jason Calacanis
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Praised: Leading security software firm

"In talking to Nikesh from Palo Alto Networks, I asked him, 'Hey, how would you grade this?' And he said, 'We put it against our software and we found bugs we were not aware of and it killed them.' He said we had to stop everything we're doing and ..."

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Everett Randle
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vs: Grouped with CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, DataDog, Palantir as premium SaaS compa...

"Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, DataDog, Palantir, all these companies trade above 15 times NTM revenue again."

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TBPN
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Used for: Implementing solutions to cyber security threats posed by new AI systems

"creates full employment for Nikesh Aurora over at Palo Alto Networks who we had a chance to talk to yesterday"

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Thomas Laffont
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"I think it speaks to the performance of public companies like Palo Alto and others."

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Nikesh Arora
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Used for: Cybersecurity inspection of network traffic, AI-enabled threat detection Praised: 125 million enforcement points, AI integration for better detection vs: AI won't replace cybersecurity companies but will enhance them

"we can officially declare the sassocalypse dead for cyber security. AI will impact in multiple places right the first place is the amount of buildout that's happening across the world on AI require means that more bits are going to be traveling ac..."

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Greg Isenberg
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Used for: Documenting AI agent security threats Praised: Trusted cybersecurity expertise

"Palo Alto Networks documented real world agent injection attacks and if Palo Alto Networks is saying there's going to be a bunch of real world agent injection attacks well I definitely trust them"

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Miles Clemens
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"CrowdStrike and maybe Palo Alto are like the platform cyber security companies."

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