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.

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

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