The Entire $1.65B Acquisition Of YouTube Took A Week, Was Negotiated At Denny’s In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing today, YouTube co-founder Steven Chen reminisced about selling his company to Google. “Was there any way you could not have sold?” Sarah Lacy asked? Hindsight is 20/20 Chen replied. Chen revealed that the entire $1.65 billion YouTube acquisition was completed in one week’s