He was given stock in Google, which has more than doubled in price since then.

My memory is fuzzy about this, but at that time, the mpaa/riaa/etc had been coming down real hard on YouTube. Without the G or another big boy coming in, their ship would have been in a precarious situation with all of the lawsuits rolling in.

And what, pray tell, is the limit on what is 'enough'? A billion? Two billion?