When Google bought YouTube in October 2006, it paid $1.65B in stock.  The reason for YouTube investors was mainly tax-based.  Google’s stock then hovered in the $425-475 range.

Surely, Sequoia, Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have sold some stock, but at its peak ($747), the YouTube acquisition netted investors over $3B.

Today, with Google’s price at a respectable $650, the deal remains a $2.5B sale.  Not bad at all.  Where does that sit in the list of biggest mergers and acquisitions of all time?

I’m glad you asked.  We have that, too.

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