American video game development and digital distribution company
Factsheet
Formerly Valve, L.L.C. (1996–2003)
Company type Private
Industry Video games
Digital distribution
Digital distribution
Formerly Valve, L.L.C. (1996–2003)
Company type Private
Industry Video games
Digital distribution
Digital distribution
Wikipedia
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Valve Corporation - Wikipedia
November 20, 2025 - Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the game franchises Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, ...
Valve Corporation
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Valve Corporation
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Valve's Ownership
Employees receive stock or stock options as part of their compensation, and are therefore part owners of the company. It seems likely that the executives and the long-term employees of the company own most of the stock, but that is hard to verify because the company doesn’t make it public. More on reddit.com
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May 31, 2024TIL Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve Corporation, has an armada of luxury yachts worth around $1 billion.
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April 10, 2024Videos
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Valve's Flawless Design Philosophy - YouTube
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Valve Took Every Hit. They Won Anyway - YouTube
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Valve's on the Warpath - YouTube
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r/valve on Reddit: "Working at Valve" - A New documentary by People ...
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Valve is EXPOSING The Gaming Industry... - YouTube
Valve Corporation
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About Us - Valve Corporation
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Steam
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Welcome to Steam
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LinkedIn
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Valve corporation | LinkedIn
Valve corporation | 236,112 followers on LinkedIn. We make games, Steam, and hardware. Join us. | Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington.
Steam
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Steam Publisher: Valve
Valve's debut title, Half-Life, was released in 1998. Since then, we've released dozens of titles that changed the world (and one that didn't). Today, millions of people play our games every day.
Google Play
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YouTube
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Valve - YouTube
Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996. In addition to creating several of the world's most award-winning games, Valve is also a developer of leading-edge technologies including the Source® game engine and ...
Reddit
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r/valve on Reddit: Valve's Ownership
August 26, 2021 -
How come Gabe Newell owns only 50% of the Valve; even though its not listed on stock exchanges and their wildly popular handbook has said that they ve never taken EXTERNAL FUNDING for the necessary freedom ? Who got the rest 50% (is it his wife) and what benefits do they have since they cant in no way cash out as Gabe would not cede control of the company?
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Employees receive stock or stock options as part of their compensation, and are therefore part owners of the company. It seems likely that the executives and the long-term employees of the company own most of the stock, but that is hard to verify because the company doesn’t make it public.
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He got divorced, it's extremely likely his ex wife received stock. Billionaires don't sell stock (because it's taxed at sale) instead they offset stock as collateral against margin loans, i.e. borrow $1B against $4B of stock and pay 0.7% a year in interest, vs paying 20% capital gains selling $1B of stock, and losing control of your company, as well as dropping the stock value. Then they can spend that $1B or put it in an index fund (or better) so they are paying 0.7% and then making 8% on the market with it. Free money. You can do this too just scale everything down, but you won't get offered 0.7%.
Supercar Blondie
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Valve makes $50,000,000 per employee with gaming company set to generate $17,000,000,000 this year
1 month ago - Valve, the gaming company behind Counter-Strike and the online game store Steam, has been confirmed as one of the most profitable businesses in the world and is set to pull in $17 billion this year from just 350 employees.
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June 19, 2019 - Click to Follow valvesoftware · Valve · @valvesoftware · We make games, Steam, and hardware. For support, visit http://help.steampowered.com. Bellevue, WAvalvesoftware.com · Joined June 2019 · 11 Following · 826.6K Followers · Valve · ...
Forbes
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Valve Corporation Gets Steamed By Own Subscriber Agreement And Is Dismissed On UPEPA Special Motion In Washington Case
July 28, 2025 - Steam is an online platform that allows the developers of video games to sell their games to users. Stream is owned by Valve Corporation. To participate in the Stream platform, the users must first agree to something called the "Stream Subscriber Agreement" also known as the "SSA".
PCMAG
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Is the 'Steam Frame' Valve's Next Hardware Device? | PCMag
September 3, 2025 - Valve registers the 'Steam Frame' trademark for use in the video game console, peripheral, and computer hardware categories.
PC Gamer
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Valve does its homework the night before deadline: Switches Steam to run on Mac chips right as Apple announces it's ditching Intel for good | PC Gamer
June 13, 2025 - Which brings us to Steam. Valve being Valve—and macOS making up an absolutely infinitesimal percentage of overall Steam users—it never bothered to create an Apple Silicon-native version of Steam in all these past five years. Until yesterday.
Wikidata
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Valve Corporation - Wikidata
American video game development and digital distribution company
PC Gamer
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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam | PC Gamer
July 18, 2025 - It's Mastercard's world; we just live in it. That's my understanding based on a recent communiqué from Valve to PC Gamer, which confirmed that, yup, the company sure did recently remove a whole spate of adult games from its storefront because it made payment processors upset.
Indeed
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Valve Corporation Careers and Employment | Indeed.com
Valve Corporation (formerly Valve Software, commonly referred to as Valve and sometimes stylized as VALVᴇ) is an American video game development and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Its European-based office opened in 2012 in Luxembourg.
Simple English Wikipedia
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Valve Corporation - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 13, 2025 - Valve Corporation is an American video game developer and digital distributor company in Bellevue, Washington. It was started in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, two Microsoft employees in the past.
Fandom
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Valve Corporation | Half-Life Wiki | Fandom
June 7, 2025 - Valve Corporation, often referred to as Valve Software or simply, Valve, and stylized as VALVE is an American video game and digital distribution developer based in Bellevue, Washington.[2] Their first game, Half-Life, was highly acclaimed, ...
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