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Loose Wires: Well we all know Google might buy YouTube now

Nick Douglas · 10/06/06 09:40PM
  • Big kahuna venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla, Google co-founder Larry Page, Google CEO wife ("first lady"?) Wendy Schmidt, and eBay founder Jeff Skoll all donated money to promote Proposition 87 (which would add a tax to oil in California), embroiling them in an election-funding battle against oil companies and adding to a total $98 million combined war chest. [Mercury News]