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Who made what from Google's YouTube purchase

Posted at 9:38 AM on February 8, 2007 by Jon Gordon

According to an SEC filing, several people and institutions made a tidy little profit from last year's sale of video site YouTube to Internet giant Google:

Sequoia Capital (main financial backer of YouTube): $504 million

Founder Chad Hurley: $345 million

Founder Steven Chen: $326 million

Founder Jawed Karim (the guy with Twin Cities ties who left the company early): $65 million


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