Valve Corporation
Gabe Newell
Valve Corporation
About Gabe
Gabe Logan Newell, born on November 3, 1962, is an American video game developer and businessman. He is the co-founder, president, and majority owner of Valve Corporation, a prominent video game company. Newell was born in Aspen, Colorado, and raised in Davis, California. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he contributed to the development of the initial versions of the Windows operating system. He also led the development of a port of the game Doom for Windows 95. In 1996, Newell and Mike Harrington left Microsoft to establish Valve and support the development of their first game, Half-Life, released in 1998. Harrington sold his stake to Newell and left the company in 2000. Under Newell's leadership, Valve developed Steam, a digital distribution platform launched in 2003 that, by 2011, controlled most of the market for downloaded PC games. Forbes estimated that Newell owned at least half of Valve as of 2025. Beyond the gaming industry, Newell owns the marine research organization Inkfish, the neuroscience company Starfish Neuroscience, and the custom yacht manufacturer Oceanco. He has been recognized as one of the wealthiest individuals in the United States and the video game industry, with an estimated net worth of around 11 billion dollars as of 2025.
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Latest interviews
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Billionaire Founder Stories
Steam Billionaire Gabe Newell
Jan 14, 2026
Continue? News & Gaming
Gabe Newell & Valve: Steam’s Epic Journey + New Steam Machine Reveal!
Nov 18, 2025
High Speed History
Gabe Newell in 5 Minutes
Feb 27, 2025
Digital Minds: Exploring the Minds Shaping the IT and Gaming Worlds
EP 18 - Gabe Newell: Building Steam and Shaping Digital Games
Nov 10, 2024
Kiwi Talkz
#140 - Mike Morasky Interview(Valve, Half Life:Alyx, LOTR, NZ, Gabe Newell, Composing etc.)
Sep 14, 2022
Kiwi Talkz
#126 - Josh Weier Interview (Portal 2, Valve, Game Design, Gabe Newell, Play Testing, Management, Crunch, Certification etc.)
Feb 26, 2022
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