Who Got What Amount of Money When YouTube Sold to Google?

Techcrunch is reporting that since Viacom is currently in a legal battle with YouTube, they were able to work out how much certain people or companies received from the YouTube sale to Google.

YouTube CEO – Chad Hurley = $334 million

Co-Founder – Steve Chen = $301 million

Co-Founder – Jawed Karim = $66 million

Interface Designer – Christina Brodbeck = $9.09 million

The VCs did even better. Sequoia Capital, YouTube’s venture backer, turned a $9 million investment into $516 million (or about 31 percent). And Artis Capital turned a $3 million investment into $85 million.

Another notable stat from the legal docs: in the past five years, more than 500 million videos have been uploaded to YouTube overall.