A Message From Chad and Steve

Adam Levy · Top Commenter · Sunnyvale, California
Sounds like the purchase was a "grand slam".

Serge Bronstein · Subscribe · Top Commenter · C.E.O. at PeopleMix.net social network
loool good one

Elin Blesener · Subscribe · Top Commenter · San Francisco, California · 662 subscribers
Haha, perfect

Frank Jaskulski
What's with the post above....seems unrelated. Maybe someone could delete it since it seems like an Ad for something else. As for the Grand Slam....Lumber Jack?

Venkatesh Babu · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Bangalore, India
I shall keep a watch on Denny's for schmidt next time I go there.. Who knows what deal is being finalized.

Max Woolf · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon · 143 subscribers
You should totally ask for his autograph.

Andreas Möller
"Our own Mike Arrington".

Max Woolf · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon · 143 subscribers
“For ten months, what ever we wanted to do, we were allowed to do.” And all they did was run a company? Pfft, there are much more *creative* ways to use Google's resources if they're sporting a blank check. ;)

Robert Boyle · Top Commenter · Brooklyn, New York
Out of curiosity: like what Max?

Trying to pull something out of you that doesn't make you sound like a total hater :)

Max Woolf · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon · 143 subscribers
Robert Boyle like world domination, etc.

Robert Boyle · Top Commenter · Brooklyn, New York
Max Woolf lol ok. Makes total sense.


Ryan Bukevicz · Founder and President at Bevo Media
Awesome article, and very interesting... I think the deal worked out well for both Chen and Google.

Erik Posthuma · Subscribe · Hotelschool The Hague
Nice little insight. Goes to show that even the biggest of deals are done between people. No matter the setting.

Daniel Kay · Top Commenter
just exactly whats the other way those deal can be done?

Julian Hugh · Founder and CEO at SwagFriends.com teens social network
I love Google and I think its the best thing they ever purchased. I also would think these two founders would have worth as much as Mark Zuckerberg, if not more, had they held out though or just keep the company to themselves. Youtube has been around for so long and its still growing.

Ray Gellenbeck · Client Solutions Architect - ITSM Saas at Unisys
meh, some including myself would argue that YouTube grew well on its own, but Google's incorporating them took them to a whole new level. No doubt YouTube was big, but I don't see it ever having achieved Facebook autonomy on its own and, worse, it might have been toppled by the next swanky video hosting craze to come along. Sometimes acquisition makes sense (not always, but sometimes).

Bill Junior · Universidade Lusiada de Angola
Was it a big sale? No regrets in the end?

Daniel Kay · Top Commenter
ok couple facts so most of you wanna-be one billion $ exit entrepreneurs leave cloud number nine and step; into the real world.
1. what Chen already had and none of you does, is amazing back of people that were willing to do deals with him. He knew cell numbers of people your read about here every day. you don't. 2. this deal was owed to YT owners. most of the Goog board looked at it the right way -- that its a pirate site where noone cares about copyrights. Most of the board was against the purchase. Highest people in Goog pull it anyways. 3. Of course it was a great sell, to yt owners of course. If you think that Goog wasnt able to figure out how to make money with YT in last 4 years, will all of sudden come up with some brilliant plan to make it 10% of goog revenue, then you are wrong.

Jacketad Linkjacket
looking back to it, would you still sell? I am curious about the thought of the founders about youtube then and now.

Imran Shaikh · Mumbai, Maharashtra
absolutely amazing and worthy information on youtube.... great service!

Arun Kumar · Arizona
Denny’s 1
IHOP 0

Charudatta Pable · Sunnyvale, California
you're forgetting they wanted to go to a place where neither of them would go

Arun Kumar · Arizona
Charudatta Pable It's a joke.

Maro Onokpise
Ummm...not for nothing, but the Steven Chen that's hyperlinked in the post is to a different Steven Chen's CrunchBase profile. I want to learn more about the Steven Chen featured in this post.

Jordan Ambra · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Owner at Photoflit
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/steve-chen

Maro Onokpise
Thanks Jordan!

AisleFinder CPope · Subscribe · Top Commenter
Access to resources are a huge advantage, especially with the worlds biggest data provider.

Samson Ogunsola · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Bridgeport, Connecticut
Sell out :)

Andrew Jones · Subscribe · Works at Altimeter Group
Crunchbase link goes to wrong Steven Chen.

Rachael Depp · Subscribe · Top Commenter
googz

Nate Griffin · Nashville, Tennessee
That's the type of business I like.

Nikolas Baron · Oestrich-Winkel
WINNING

Madusha Palliyage
Tech Crunch need to improve your TV qyality. lol

Shriram Parthasarathy · Subscribe · Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
On the bright side when you look at it, this is a great opening for the 'Google TV' concept. It may be strategic back then, but it's the way forward now.
Shriram Parthasarathy
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Shriram Parthasarathy · Subscribe · Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
A slam indeed, but with Google you need to determine how majors does it constitute.
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Play Times · Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nice way to do business. Well done. http://www.playtimeonline.co.uk

Ayaz Muhammed · Subscribe · Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology
Google can buy Nokia Google can buy even Microsoft but what Google cant buy?
"STEVE JOB'S " APPLE?