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Gabe Newell delivers inspirational message to fans and competitors at The International 2025
Gabe Newell waxes poetic about his love for the Dota 2 community in a special message for The International: 'People talk s**t at me in chat' and tell him to uninstall the game on a weekly basis

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news But he loves 'em anyway.

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Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he'll pick up later this year, because he 'respects the sea'

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News I respect the sea. Where's my yacht company?

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Gabe Newell in Half-Life 25th Anniversary documentary video
Gabe Newell says young people need to use AI tools to get 'off to the races' rather than 'reading articles on Variety to try to understand what its impact is going to be'

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News "I think [AI is] going to be 10 times as significant as the impact of CGI was on filmmaking."

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Gabe Newell sat on a sofa, barefoot, talking about brain-computer interface technology
Valve CEO Gabe Newell says success isn't about following your passion: 'Sounds like a great idea, but lots of people follow their passions right into a crater, you know?'

By Rich Stanton Published

News He's very much a people person.

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Gabe Newell in the 20th Anniversary Half-Life 2 Documentary.
Gabe Newell says the difference between billionaires and the rest of us is 'an awful lot of luck'

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news "...It would be great to say I'm just this absolutely f***ing wonderful person, and that I earned all of this, and that this expresses my awesomeness, but..."

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The first 'real videogame' Gabe Newell played was Star Trek, where you made your choices via punch cards before running over to the printer: 'It usually takes about 15 minutes to do a move'

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News "This was just a complete distraction or a waste of time versus what I was supposed to be doing."

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Gabe Newell in a Valve promotional video, on a yacht.
The young Gabe Newell thought he'd be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where 'Steve Ballmer got mad and said 'If you're going to be hanging out here, why don't you do something useful?''

By Rich Stanton Published

News We might not have Steam if Ballmer hadn't blown his top.

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Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."

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Gabe Newell says AI is a 'significant technology transition' on a par with the emergence of computers or the internet, and will be 'a cheat code for people who want to take advantage of it'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "If I had to point to a technology transition to get in front of, it's to figure out how to use AI to do anything better."

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Gabe Newell in the 20th Anniversary Half-Life 2 Documentary.
Gabe Newell thinks AI tools will result in a 'funny situation' where people who don't know how to program become 'more effective developers of value' than those who've been at it for a decade

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Even if you're just a pure tool user you're going to find that the gains to utilising those tools are very, very high."

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