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    Co-Founder of Valve Corporation, Gabe Newell is responsible for the Half-Life franchise.

    So here's what I did today instead of going to class.

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    #1  Edited By ajamafalous
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    I had class (Italian!) from 2-3 pm, but at 11:45 my roommate texted me and told me that Gabe would be on campus giving a talk from 12:15-1:30. When we got there at 12:20 (parking was a total bitch) he had already started and the room was full, but the lady guarding the door told us that he was going to try to split his time and do a second talk afterward, so we went to the other room and waited until 1:15 before he got there (Valve Time in full effect). He talked until about 2:30 about a ton of interesting stuff, including Valve's corporate structure (or lack thereof), how he believes Apple could roll the living room consoles if they chose to enter the market, how he hopes that Apple won't make a move on it before the Steambox gets other players into the PC living room market, and a lot of the thought process and decision making behind how they handle Steam's store, creating market value, running a free to play game, working with an economist, what they look for in their employees, and more. It was an awesome experience; Gabe's a really genuine guy and opened up about a lot more than I was expecting him to. He also didn't hold back cracking some jokes and cursing more than a few times. Definitely one of those things I'll remember years from now.

    To close, here is a picture of Gabe Newell wearing a horse mask.

     
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    This one's a little blurry, but a bunch of people yelled
    This one's a little blurry, but a bunch of people yelled "HOLD UP A THREE" and Gabe 'struggled' to hold up a third finger. 
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    #2  Edited By colourful_hippie

    Wow, great stuff. I would totally ditch class for that too.

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    #3  Edited By Wraith1

    that's pretty awesome duder

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    #4  Edited By ChadMasterFlash

    Three is a myth, look at that photo it's blurry just like all the bigfoot and loch ness monster photos.

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    #5  Edited By Ravenlight

    Nice! I'm always impressed with how down-to-earth and willing to just talk about random stuff Gabe Newell is. Based on all the interviews and podcasts I've heard him on, he seems like a legitimately cool guy.

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    #6  Edited By McShank

    Which Campus? UW? Some Community collage near seattle? Also what did he say he looks for in employees so I can start improving on those factors :D

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    #7  Edited By Sooty

    Gaben can do no wrong.

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    #8  Edited By OfficeGamer

    I'm someone who really really needs to respect a person before praising them and calling them great, and I consider Gabe Newell the greatest guy in this entire industry.

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    #9  Edited By Marz

    that's pretty cool.

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    #10  Edited By audiosnow

    There aren't too many people who have a vision and, despite universal dissent, persist until it's realized and everyone's opinion changes.

    Steve Jobs and Gabe Newell are two of those.

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    #11  Edited By ajamafalous
    @McShank said:

    Which Campus? UW? Some Community collage near seattle? Also what did he say he looks for in employees so I can start improving on those factors :D

    University of Texas at Austin.
     
    He basically said that they try to fill their staff with people who can do more than one thing so that they can draw from all of those areas when they're working on a project. An example he gave was a guy that had an art and animation background but could also program. He would make an art asset for the game. When he got to implementing it and animating it, the programming was very difficult, so instead of dealing with the difficult programming, he went back and changed the art assets to make it easier to program.
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    #12  Edited By meaninoflife42

    So Jacket from Hotline Miami was inspired by Gabe Newell.

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    #13  Edited By Claude

    Worth the ditch. Very nice, indeed.

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    #14  Edited By RazielCuts

    @meaninoflife42 said:

    So Jacket from Hotline Miami was inspired by Gabe Newell.

    That game makes sense now.

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    #15  Edited By mnzy

    Why is Gabe in Austin? Buying Studios, hiring freshly unemployed game developers? To the rumor machine!

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    #16  Edited By Mirado

    I just love breaking this one out.

    That's awesome that you jumped ship to listen to him. By the sound of it, it was totally worth it.

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    #17  Edited By toowalrus

    What's the deal with the horse head?

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    #18  Edited By august

    Awesome as fuck.

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    #19  Edited By BisonHero

    The beard is still awesome, but he needs to grow it out into a full Santa Claus.

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    #20  Edited By packs217

    I've run into Gabe in Seattle twice and he was happy to stop and talk both times. Great guy.

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    #21  Edited By ajamafalous
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    What's the deal with the horse head?

    Dude in the picture apparently had it with him and got it signed (along with a few other things). Then he asked for a picture, and someone said to him "put on the horse head!" Dude started to grab it and Gabe was all "No," and grabbed it himself, took off his glasses, and put it on. Fucking hilarious.
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    #23  Edited By thebunnyhunter

    When will Gaben learn how to count to three.....When!?!?

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    #24  Edited By Eviternal

    @McShank said:

    What did he say he looks for in employees so I can start improving on those factors

    Here is Valve's employee handbook (dated 2012). That should help!

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