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Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an 'informal advisory board'
News $20,008,279, to be precise.
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Thanks to Musk v. Altman lawsuit, it's now public record that Gabe Newell emailed Elon Musk to get his pal Hideo Kojima a tour of SpaceX and OpenAI
News The man really wants to go to space.
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'Obviously we love the PC,' Gabe Newell told us 15 years ago, but his focus was on 'a responsibility to gamers and game developers'
news Sony boosts PlayStation and Microsoft promotes Xbox, but the Valve boss said Steam takes a slightly different approach.
Gabe Newell once said Steam wasn't 'the answer to digital distribution,' proving that even Gabe Newell is wrong about stuff sometimes
news Newell said things "change dramatically" every two or three years, but not all things, as it turns out.
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Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
News Portal 2 project lead Josh Weier says Newell didn't want to impose his ideas on designers, but being one of them wasn't an option.
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'Golden goose' indie games get Gabe Newell's attention, says Steam expert: 'You're like a little goblin that has a magical power to turn straw into gold'
News "He will say to you, 'oh god, please spin these wishlists into gold.'"
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Estimates peg Valve as a capitalism fusion reactor, making such ungodly money per employee that it's no wonder Gabe Newell bought all those yachts and the whole damn yacht company
News But bear in mind estimates are all we have to go off until an accountant leaves Valve's books in a bar.
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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs
News "We knew we were asking for unusual things," says Newell, "and Oceanco embraced it with open arms."
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