Gabe Newell -- The Top G of Gaming

Who is Gabe Newell, Billionaire founder of Steam and Valve? Here's his backstory, his companies' flawless rise to success, and his plans for the future

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[desadesa]

God bless Gabe and his regional prices.

[med]

It’s truly disappointing that Gabe is the exception and not the rule for how leaders in the industry steer their companies but I am still extremely grateful that a man like him is in charge of the most culturally important company in the industry nonetheless

[szweb]

I feel like Gabe is one of the few major people inside the gaming world, who still after all these years and millions / billions of dollars still has a core, childlike passion for gaming.

[JC-]

Lord Gaben and his infinite wisdom is not just the father of PC gaming, he IS PC gaming.

[jerosajose]

I just wish all major companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and so on, had a CEO like Gabe

[dimitristsipis]

Gabe is a legend. One of the few remaining visionaries in the industry. And one of the few modern companies CEOs who knows what playing videogames is.

[feritye]

he is the reason we have objectively some of the best games of all time, one of the best vr headsets of all time, an entire extremely convenient pc game store and catalogue, AND an incredibly graphically impressive handheld console with a massive catalogue of games.

[UncleRJ]

There is something inherently funny yet awestruck that GabeN took _just enough_ cut to keep his control over the company. That _0.1%_ is small yet huge at the same time.

[HipurVideos]

gabe is the godfather of gaming, he creates things that gamers actually want and not just for profit

[raphaelokai]

Gabe created and he's transforming the gaming industry

[JagoShogun]

He's a rare beast. IT's from that era are exceptionally intelligent. He has good emotions, ethics, and didn't let anything change him. What surprises me is how he can be so gifted, achieved, and still remain so human.

[Brave_New_Tube]

I knew Gabe had always been one of the main leaders/decision-makers at Valve, but I had no idea he had a whole-ass 50.1% majority stake in the company. No wonder he’s been able to make Steam and Valve’s other projects as great as they are. He actually puts his money where his mouth is and uses it to stay true to his passion of improving/contributing to the PC gaming community.

[adamgerald]

The first time i used steam was about 16 years ago. My friend was into counter strike and installed it on my PC. Many people had ideas similar to steam, but steam always did it best. My favorite thing has always been the community. Seeing what games my friends are playing, viewing the community page for my favorite games to talk to and share things with people who enjoy the same things as me... its so special. I just ordered my first steam deck. I cant wait. I will support Gaben as much as I can. He understands a company's greatest asset is its customers/users. He even tells people to email him. Im glad hes successful. I worry about what will happen to Valve once he's gone. He looks a lot better and has lost a lot of weight so i hope he has another 40 years in him. I always worry about overweight people when they start getting old.

[TantalG]

I use steam deck as my desktop PC, with steam dock, keyboard, mouse and display.

This is one the best purchases I've made in my life. I code on it, browse the web, play games like DotA or crusader kings 3. I have also discovered platformers like dead cells thanks to the Deck.
GabeN, thank you

[Avoidthevoidx]

this man decided to support us linux users, when almost everybody decided that we are not worth the time and effort. even when linux was not this main stream.

[bluup]

Gaben didn't also just make a platform and couple of games, in reality he kind of made 50% of the games out. His platform and his influence alone on the gaming industry changed it forever. He single handedly revolutionized our entertainment through video games. Not only that but he also showed the world that gaming had a bigger market than they'd ever thought which also could have been the motivation behind a lot of start up developing of video games (ex. Bethesda, Starbreeze, Respawn Entertainment) that have made a HUGE footprint in the industry and made games we call our childhood. Just a complete W of a human being.

[rowdyjansen]

Something HUGE that was not mentioned, ANY pc game you ever bought can be activated on steam as long as it came with a CD-KEY. This is very useful for digitizing games that were released under older windows versions and won't run on newer versions. On PC backwards compatibility is mostly a software problem, not a hardware problem like with consoles (although it's getting better now that consoles are just using the same x86 architecture as PC has been using since 1978)

[xyazmayahare]

The part where you got it wrong or missed is how they run the games in linux. They made a technology called Proton, it's basically a translator, which translates windows api calls such as the ones that are used in directx opengl and so on, and translates to a call that linux understands. It's basically a layer that translates the game in order to run on linux. Fun fact recently apple has been working on a similar technology based in proton called Metal, which has the same idea, translating opengl, directx api calls to the mac environment.

[Lilmations]

For everyone asking why this channel is underrated....this is a second channel to his main channel ...where he talks about programming and languages in general ..

[muB]

HL-Alyx do have a significant cultural icon. It came out before metaverse was even a thing, and sent all the metaverse trash back to where they belong to -- the digital junkyard. Even to this day it still holds the golden standard of VR gaming. Valve literally turned an idea everyone thought would have flopped (making it VR-exclusive) into a total win. What a fking legend!