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October 31, 2011 09:10 am GMT
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The Entire $1.65B Acquisition Of YouTube Took A Week, Was Negotiated At Dennys
In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing today, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen reminisced about selling his company to Google. Was there any way you could not have sold? Sarah Lacy asked? Hindsight is 20/20 Chen replied. Chen revealed that the entire $1.65 billion YouTube acquisition was completed in one weeks time. Chen met with executives from both Google and Yahoo, including Yahoos Jerry Yang, at a Dennys in Palo Alto, We didnt want to meet at offices, so we were like, Wheres a place that none of us would go?Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Mr3b8enDiWo/
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