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Valve Corporation

Gabe Newell & Mike Harrington · 1996

Valve is a rare case where platform ownership fully decouples creative output from financial sustainability. Its flat structure is not a virtue—it is a tax the company pays for avoiding managerial overhead, made bearable only by Steam’s dominance. It does not scale. It does not replicate. It survives.