Feb 15 2011
Valve Gabe Newell Forbes Article Steam

There’s a good article with lots of details on Valve, the game company that is estimated to generate more revenue per employee that Google and Apple.
Read the story on Forbes.com

Congratulations to Gabe and his team of 250 employees.

The company is private and does not disclose any financials, but estimates put the company at earning hundreds of millions per year.

Popular games like Farmville and website Steam

Here’s a quote from the article:

Steam controls half to 70% of the $4 billion market for downloaded PC games, selling titles from bigger firms such as EA and Activision, as well as Valve’s own games. Its sci-fi shoot-’em-up thriller Half-Life 2 has sold 12 million copies since 2004 and is the highest-rated PC game on the Web site Metacritic.

website: https://store.steampowered.com/

Gabe Newell
Founder/Managing Director
Gabe held a number of positions in the Systems, Applications, and Advanced Technology divisions during his 13 years at Microsoft. His responsibilities included running program management for the first two releases of Windows, starting the company’s multimedia division, and, most recently, leading the company’s efforts on the Information Highway PC. His most significant contribution to Half-Life was his statement “C’mon, people, you can’t show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.
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