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Gabe Newell, founder of Bellevue’s Valve, buys $70.8M Florida mansion (www.seattletimes.com)

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This is why Steam Machine is over 1000 USD/Euro.

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[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Have did that because he built several industry leading video games, then built the largest online video game store front, and a hardware company the size most companies have for web dev.

The video game industry is larger than Hollywood and the music industry combined. Steam generated over 17 billion USD in revenue over 2025, with a team of around 350 full time employees.

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