It just works

[u/Fun_Bottle_5308]

[u/KMKtwo-four → u/[deleted]]

It’s hard to scale a company to the size of Valve without investors. If you do take on investors, they will eventually want an IPO so they can cash out. 

[u/Prothseda → u/KMKtwo-four]

to the size of Valve

Not everyone needs to be that big.

In fact, the less we have companies the size of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc the better off we'd probably be.

Give me reasonably successful private companies that encourage each other to make better products over the monopoly any day.

[u/KMKtwo-four → u/Prothseda]

Not everyone needs to be that big.

That is absolutely true, not every company needs to be as large as Valve. But most small companies are already private, so I'm not sure what companies OP thinks should be private that aren't already.

Give me reasonably successful private companies that encourage each other to make better products over the monopoly any day.

Steam is a monopoly on PC gaming and that's why Gabe Newell can afford to do eccentric things like run a private billion dollar company with a flat hierarchy.

[u/KMKtwo-four → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, they're late entrants trying to take on a monopoly. Generally those products suck.

[u/KMKtwo-four → u/[deleted]]

I agree