“About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'” PeopleWould BeRunningJobsGamesAnswersHalfCompanyValuableElsewhereValve Author:Gabe Newell
“The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'” FirstsCultureValve Author:Gabe Newell
“In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'” NeedsLooksHappensTodayOrderStrongLimitsHappeningsExcitingInnovationAccomplishAccessBunchOpennessPlatformsGoogleEpicCompetitorsValve Author:Gabe Newell
