What's the Deal With Valve?

Gabe Newell and his co-founders had made quite a bit of coin, just writing the stock as Microsoft became one of the most important companies in the world during that decade. So you know, they had some startup capital, shall we say, and they were starting a new company. They really wanted to make games. That was their passion. And I'm not sure if they knew exactly what our deal was with ID, but they certainly knew enough that they drove a hard bargain.

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