[wpietri]

How many hours a day does the average Valve person spend in meetings? How are they organized?

I've looked into some co-ops, including San Francisco's venerable (and very profitable) Rainbow Grocery. One of the biggest complaints is the amount and/or difficulty of meetings, but they see them as necessary to settle issues with sufficient buy-in from all stakeholders. How does Valve minimize that pain?

[FreakLegion]

Have you read Valve's article on cabals? It's fairly old, but should give you some insight into how they approach meetings.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3408/the_cabal_valves_...