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No, Buchheit was employee #23 at Google. He also developed AdSense as part of Gmail.


I must be thinking of Google Maps then. Or maybe Docs?



Google Earth was an acquisition (formerly Keyhole), maybe that's what you were thinking of.


I think that was it. I replied to this point downthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39054947

I’d be glad to hear your perspective or thoughts in this thread or as a reply to my post re: Google Earth/Keyhole.


YouTube was a huge early acquisition for them around 2005 or 2006.


True, although I thought there was another big one whose name escapes me. Any ideas?

Thanks for mentioning that for the rest of HN’s sake.


Looks like Wikipedia actually has the full list.

DoubleClick and Waze are two other big ones that I remember seeming important at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...


Thanks for that list! One of my favorite Wikipedia-isms are these very “list of” pages.

I’m pretty sure it was Keyhole, for what it’s worth. Curiously, both Google and Keyhole are In-Q-Tel investments, although I’m not sure if that impacted/steered/influenced the acquisition, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History

https://web.archive.org/web/20130605121646/http://www.busine...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

From that page:

> As of 2016, In-Q-Tel listed 325 investments, but more than 100 were kept secret, according to the Washington Post. The absence of disclosure can be due to national security concerns or simply because a startup company doesn’t want its financial ties to intelligence publicized.

> […]

> While In-Q-Tel is a nonprofit corporation, it differs from IARPA and other models in that its employees and trustees can profit from its investment. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that in 2016, nearly half of In-Q-Tel's trustees had a financial connection with a company the corporation had funded.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160831020609/https://www.wsj.c...

Which is to say, apparently insider trading isn’t just “illegal except when Congress/the President does it, except when it is illegal, actually,” if I’m parsing all this correctly; apparently In-Q-Tel gets special treatment too, in some cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_tra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#By_members_of_...


Chad Hurley is still one of my fave tech success stories.

Be like Chad Hurley.




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