When Google bought YouTube in October 2006, it paid $1.65B in stock. The reason for YouTube investors was mainly tax-based. Google’s stock then hovered in the $425-475 range.
Surely, Sequoia, Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have sold some stock, but at its peak ($747), the YouTube acquisition netted investors over $3B.
Today, with Google’s price at a respectable $650, the deal remains a $2.5B sale. Not bad at all. Where does that sit in the list of biggest mergers and acquisitions of all time?
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