November 3, 1962: Happy birthday Gabe Newell!
The ubiquitous presence with the games industry of Valve CEO Gabe Newell wasn’t always so ubiquitous. Newell, however, got a very fortuitous start with Microsoft, where he worked on at least a few Windows releases. Newell raked in some serious cash at Microsoft, so is wasn’t as if he started Valve on mere pennies. He and one if his co-workers, Thomas Harrington, did, however invest what they could into Valve in 1996 and its first release, a little game you might have heard of called Half-Life.
