“What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.” PeopleThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingStuffWorryAccessBarriersRight WayDistributionPublishVirusesSteam Author:Gabe Newell
“I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.” WorldWantBookPlayCarePercentDon't CareApplesGrossMarginsCharging Author:Gabe Newell
“The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.” PeopleWantWellsProblemBigsRunningGamesEasyRealizingBehaviorCriticalDrivingConsumersSteamBig ProblemsLinuxPurchasingHolding Back Author:Gabe Newell
“We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'” ThinkingWantTryingBigsAnswersToolsInvestmentProducersUsersSteamBig PictureDevelopersAlways Thinking Author:Gabe Newell
“The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't” PeopleIfsWantInternetSmartDollarsMarketingSuper Smart Author:Gabe Newell
