Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations

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Published 2013-02-01

Gabe Newell, head of Valve Software, gives a talk on productivity, economics, political institutions, and the future of corporations on January 30, 2013 at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin

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@Itskilo 4 months ago

I love how perfectly still he stays for the first 30 seconds while being introduced
@nicholassilva-horvat617 9 months ago

He drinks the water at 26:35
@Coldsteak 4 months ago

I have never seen a single game studio who has gone public that DIDN'T go downhill in quality and customer approval after.
@Lotsner 10 years ago

I watched this while Steam was down.
@Sant0ra2007 6 months ago

29:30 I just burst out laughing because I wasn't expecting Gabe Newell to say that.
@Chris-ki2dx 4 months ago

Listening to Gabe is strangely relaxing and soothing to me
@Prisoner 6 months ago

as a tf2 player, this is the first time I listen to a talk by Gabe, and it warms my heart to realise he obviously has such a deep understanding about tf2’s functioning.
@Falsechicken 7 months ago

Great points that I have intuited over the years. Publicly traded companies are trash and always tend towards maximum profit and the consumer experience be damned due to the fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. They are literally forced by law to be as greedy as possible and cannot make principled decisions without being liable to be sued by the shareholders which always leads to the terrible experience of backwards rules and being nickle and dimed.
@IsolationStreams 4 months ago

29:27 literally me
@HappyLittleBoozer 7 months ago

Genuinely inspirational. Gaben will forever be the God of gaming precisely because of his brilliant mindset.
@roygaya 5 months ago

Great lecture! He started his presentation in Hard difficulty, then realised that his audience are still in 'Easy + Auto-aim' phase 😅
@AndrewDasilvaPLT 4 months ago

This is one of the best interviews I've seen with Gabe.
@reemazaljahdali3141 7 months ago

I like listening to Gabe
@ebelel3579 3 months ago

I could listen to this man for hours, really interesting topics and GabeN's nice wording
@HomicidalVocals 11 years ago

This is bloody interesting. Thanks for uploading this.
@AUBCodeII 2 years ago

0:00 Gabe enabled statue mode!
@BusinessWolf1 3 months ago

The last 5th of this interview I will need to rewatch countless times to understand fully, but god damn it it will have been worth it.
@Tyretes 3 months ago

this will be the longest ever i've heard gaben talking. it hasn't even been 10 minutes yet.
@neptronix 1 year ago

Mind blowing dude!!
@alienc 4 months ago

buy a csgo key every time gaben hits the desk and the mic pics it up