As the acquisition fallout finally renders itself on the pavement YouTube's founders, Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, are left with quite a predicament.

What do you do when you're suddenly worth more than $300m? Each!

I thought a certain amount of hypothesizing wouldn't go astray. Certainly! Why report the facts when a little fantastical fiction is easier to ponder?

So, if Chad and Steven are hankering for ideas here's a few possibilities;

1. Buy a country - Sure. You could just move to another country. But why settle for living in a place that' not your own (isn't that renting). Therefore the best option would be to buy the whole country. Yet, there seems to be a shortage of countries for sale at the moment so a hostile corporate takeover by way of paying off their debt and holding the country at ransom might just do the trick.

   On offer, Eritrea formerly Ethiopia, Seychelles, now that would be nice, Fiji or they may even consider The Bahamas.

   They could even pool their wealth and buy Barbados.



2. Sponsor a few children - not taking into account inflation or interest on their funds they could sponsor 625,000 children, each for 1 year or nearly 35,000 children for their whole lifetime.


3. Buy all 10 of the world's most expensive cars - now let's assume their not going to be as philanthropic as we first assumed. They could easily buy all ten of these cars and still have change left over to build an add-on garage to house them.


4. Sail the world in their luxury appointed yacht - while they wouldn't be limited with their choice of cars they may have to make a decision which yacht you'll moor at the boat club. But you may have some left over change to buy the yacht club, if they have trouble finding room to berth it.


5. Or, settle down in their new house - in fact, if this is a guide to home prices they shouldn't have too many problems finding something within the budget.


6. Buy some bling - there is no use being wealthy if you can't tell everyone that you're filthy rich. And what better way to do that, in style, than to spend a small countries GDP on a watch. $11m - you've got to be joking!

And while they're thinking it over they may as well chew over a quick sandwich and a cup of coffee.

Still, you boys deserve it. Those 20 months of hard-work must have been tough...