The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.' — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue, — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly,… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins;… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
