Every year for Google has been a breakout year for the eight-
year-old company, but 2006 was a blockbuster. Besides adding
user-generated video phenom YouTube to its roster for $1.65
billion in stock, Google remained a favorite of Wall Street,
with stock catapulting over $500 per share. That spike was
more than enough to cover the cost of purchasing YouTube.

And then they moved in with NASA.

2. YouTube
If Google was a winner just for acquiring YouTube, then YouTube
founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, who created a site and
flipped it for major moolah in just a year and a half, without
even demonstrating how the site could turn a profit, are the
biggest table scrap winners of the year. They still run their
company and still got those stock certificates.

3. Broadband

Dialup