YouTube’s cofounders could all be part of the billionaire club alongside Google’s Sundar Pichai had they kept the business: It’s grown some 333x since they cashed out.
But when its founders sold the popular video platform to Google for $1.65 billion in fall 2006, not even they could have predicted just how massive it would become—or how much more they could have made.
At the time of sale, each cofounder—Chad Hurley… [2810 chars]
Source: Fortune | Published: 2026-07-03T14:50:42Z
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