Gabe Newell

After a lucky 13 years at Microsoft where he handled everything from Windows (as a program manager on the initial and subsequent releases of the OS) to headed up the Redmond software giant's multimedia offshoot, Gabe Newell took the seven figures he'd earned and along with fellow Microsoft employee Mike Harrington formed Valve Corporation in 1996. They entirely self-funded their first project, Half-Life, which wound up turning PC first-person shooters on their head when it was released two years later.

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Gabe Newell, Half-Life Wiki

Valve's Gabe Newell to be Honoured with BAFTA Fellowship

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Gabe Newell - Combine OverWiki, the original Half-Life wiki and Portal wiki

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Gabe Newell: NFT actors “not people you want to be doing business with”

Gabe Newell has been hiding in a Windows 1.0 Easter egg for 36 years

Gabe Newell - Wikipedia

Valve's Gabe Newell hints at vague console plans coming “this year”