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October 31, 2011 09:10 am GMT

The Entire $1.65B Acquisition Of YouTube Took A Week, Was Negotiated At Dennys

Screen Shot 2011-10-31 at 1.13.18 PMIn 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?

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