[NikolaNovak]

Sorry, are we saying Valve Gabe Newell? That's blowing my mind from both timeline and area perspective.

[mikestew]

Yup, where do you think he got the money to start Valve? :-)

[Folcon]

Yep, I still do love this little factoid

[atombender]

It's a fact, though, not a factoid.

[Folcon]

Huh, valid correction, thank you, never realised that those weren't synonyms

[anthk]

Half Life 3.11 confirmed.

[monocasa]

Half Life for Workgroups

[LocalH]

Half Life/386

[throwatdem12311]

Copilot Life

[VierScar]

I think he must have sworn off any v3 after MS-DOSv3.

[Melatonic]

Clippy is the final boss

[anthk]

That's for Portal 3.

[jnpnj]

Yeah, I don't know why this never popped on my radar. I read Abrash books long ago, MS employees blog too, its history around the creation of UIs (xerox/apple and all that), the OS/2 era .. and I never saw his name (or maybe selective vision tricked me).

Very fun fact

[ndisn]

He notably worked at Microsoft before founding Valve.

[bombcar]

I believe he’s confirmed that his time at Microsoft both gave him the money and the desire to make Valve and Steam.

[p_l]

The desire to switch to games was, reputedly, seeing Doom outsell Windows 3.x with none of the marketing budget (with Windows having huge one).

Then not getting enough support in trying to drum up better support for gaming at Microsoft, IIRC

[bombcar]

Gabe and Carmack are probably above Amelio and below Jobs and Gates in impact on the world - but probably above them all in impact when measured on a “desired” axis - people sought out Doom in a way that even the iPhone wasn’t.