Who got rich from the YouTube-Google deal?

News: YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each got about $325 million in Google Stock.  Jawed Karim, the 3rd cofounder who left for Stanford, got $64.6 million. (More here)

Then, the sole venture capitalist backing YouTube, Sequoia Capital, got $442 million in Google stock.  Another part of the pot went to Sequoia’s private investors, a who’s who list of elite institutions:

Harvard

Yale

Brown

Columbia

Oxford

The families behind the Getty, Hewlitt-Packard, and Intel fortunes.

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3 Responses to “Who got rich from the YouTube-Google deal?”

  1. Gabriel Says:
    February 8, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    it’s look so simly, but , in back of those transactions are open minds, and full pockets :)

  2. David h. Says:
    February 10, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    well ive seen a guys whos gotton rich off youtube. This guys made over 25,000 from youtube begging for dollars. http://www.theyoutubemillionaire.com

  3. Frosh Says:
    February 11, 2007 at 7:00 am

    The smart get richer.

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