19
Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/steam@programming.dev
comment fedilink hide all child comments

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
there doesn't seem to be anything here
7 comments in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca view that post
[–] 27 points 1 year ago

Looks like PC Gamer is going to be mining this for multiple articles; there’s another one talking about how he got started at Microsoft because he was yelled at by Steve Balmer for distracting his brother, who was working there writing a C compiler at the time. I think I’ll just watch the video, it’s about a half-hour.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Well it's been quite a long time since I've seen what Gabe Newell looked like. I love that he now looks like that.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's an old photo, I think, articles just use the same one over and over again.

    Apparently this is a picture from last year, during his introduction to The International:

    Gaben 2024

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure he was cleanshaven and had dark hair last time I saw him. 😂

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's his super old look. I think since Covid he's been staying in New Zealand most of the time, owns a Marine Research company, and occasionally does interviews, so there's like two sets of pictures, that constantly get posted, when an article is about Valve/Gaben.

    The white beard has even been a thing for years before that though, just now his head is also starting to match the color.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •