The moneymen behind the Google-YouTube deal
The $1.65 billion shocker is covered just about everywhere, and The Browser has little to add except to say next time we go out to lunch with Steve and Chad, they're paying. We might, however, insist on picking up the tab for Sequoia partner Roelof Botha, whose role in orchestrating this deal already feels like one of the great behind-scenes coups in venture-capital history. Botha now has two great dotcom deals under his belt: As CFO of PayPal, he helped swing its sale to eBay. It didn't hurt Botha, of course, to be sitting up the hall from Mike Moritz, Google and PayPal's earliest venture champion. Just connecting the dots, y'all.
The deal was waiting to happen, makes sense for google to acquire all that user generated stuff on YouTube if they truly wanted to be the content custodians of the world.
The fun begins now, how many want to bet on the number of wannabes who will crawl out of the woodwork? 
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