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Gabe Newell
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American computer programmer and businessman
Gabe Newell is an American computer programmer and businessman who co-founded Valve Corporation, a highly influential video game and software company. He matters because Valve created popular games like the Half-Life series and developed Steam, a digital platform that fundamentally changed how people buy and play video games.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Logan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Colorado
- Position held
- president
- Employer
- Microsoft
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- BAFTA Fellowship
- Image
- Gabe Newell GDC 2010 (cropped 2).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Gabe Newell
- date of birth
- 1962-11-03
- birth name
- Gabe Logan Newell
- name in native language
- Gabe Newell
- net worth
- 9500000000
- start of work period
- 1983-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname GabeN, is an American video game developer and businessman. He is the co-founder, president and majority owner of the video game company Valve Corporation.
Newell was born in Aspen, Colorado, and grew up in Davis, California. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system. He also led development on a port of the game Doom for Windows 95.
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