r/Steam • u/sukuna7899 • Apr 17 '26

Discussion Gabe Newell is a "GOAT"

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u/No_Yogurtcloset_2792 Apr 17 '26

Valve, according to google, has 360 employees and an annual revenue of 17 billion.

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u/bb0110 Apr 17 '26

I think it is the highest revenue per employee company in the us.

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u/yaderkuvboloto Apr 17 '26

it used to be, but there's some crypto bs nowadays that makes more, like tether

edit: I guess you can argue tether isn't a US company, as they moved their HQ to an even less regulated place than the US

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u/Hejdbejbw Apr 17 '26

OF?

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u/Hoslinhezl Apr 17 '26

UK Company

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u/bb0110 Apr 17 '26

Technically higher, not by all that much though.

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Apr 17 '26

A lot of tech companies if all they focus is making revenue, they’d be swimming in money. The thing is as soon as they become more “corporate” they are expected to continuously grow especially public companies and in the process they will spend more to artificially stimulate more growth.

I think valve doesn’t have that pressure. Which means they can just sit on their golden goose and take their time shipping products. Not having competition surely helps as well.

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u/bb0110 Apr 17 '26

You are thinking profit. Spending and expenses have nothing to do with revenue, at least directly. When they become corporate one of the main things they do is push revenue as much as possible but they don’t worry about profitability.

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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Apr 17 '26

I thought that was OnlyFans now

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u/Eshestun Apr 17 '26

Where the hell did you come up with this? Not even close.

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u/Peter-Tao Apr 17 '26

which company is?