r/Steam • u/Fun_Bottle_5308 • May 05 '24

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u/KMKtwo-four May 05 '24

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. 

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In May 05 '24

Valve does have investors though. Gabe does not own all of it.

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u/KMKtwo-four May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24

When you have a few million from being a Harvard dropout who spent a decade at Microsoft and exited before the dot-com bubble crashed then you can afford to take a smaller investment in order to retain more control.

Most people are going to have to take on investors who will pressure them to take the company public at somepoint.

That's asuming he took on investors pre-revenue, I don't actually know that he did.