Gabe Newell

“To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.”

“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.'”

“When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who di...”

“Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.”

“People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specializati...”

“Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've...”

“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 the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They al...”

“About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question yo...”