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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Then again, somehow I don’t expect Valve’s expenditures are that high, except download server costs.

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Eh, that could also include sales revenue, of which Valve pays out 70% to right holders.

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[–] crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago

People are the biggest cost for sure. Then servers probably.

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