Gabe Newell Net Worth

Net Worth:	$6 Billion
Date of Birth:	November 3, 1962 (62 years old)
Gender:	Male
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Video Game Producer
Nationality:	United States of America

What is Gabe Newell’s Net Worth?

Gabe Newell is an American businessman in the video game development field who has a net worth of $6 billion. The video game development and online distribution company Valve Corporation, of which Gabe Newell is a co-founder and managing director, is where he gained his money.

Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Portal 2 are just a few of the games that Valve, a company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, has produced.

Childhood

Gabe Newell who is nicknamed Gaben was born November 3, 1962, in Colorado. He studied in Davis, California, at Davis Senior High School. Newell spent 13 years working at Microsoft after leaving Harvard University, where he had been a student.

During that time, he claims to have produced the first three versions of Microsoft Windows. According to Newell, he learned more at Microsoft in three months than he ever did at Harvard.

Career

In 1996, Mike Harrington and Newell quit their jobs at Microsoft to start Valve, which they funded with their own funds by creating the computer game Half-Life and the GoldSrc game engine.

Half-Life 2’s development saw Newell concentrating on the Steam Project. Concerning creating his software for game systems like the PlayStation 3, Newell has voiced his disgust.

To Sony’s keynote talk at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, he nevertheless made an appearance on stage. Additionally, Newell has criticized Windows 8 and the Xbox Live service.

Later, the Valve Corporation produced numerous popular video games, including Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Portal, and others. For his work with Steamworks, Newell was named “A Name You Should Know” by Forbes in December 2010.

Newell received the BAFTA Fellowship Award in March 2013 in recognition of his outstanding and astounding creative contribution to the video game industry. Newell was honored by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences by being admitted to their Hall of Fame in the same year.

On October 2017, Forbes included him in its list of the top 100 Americans by wealth.

Personal Life

Gabe has two sons with his wife Lisa Mennet. The day after he and Harrington launched Valve, he wed Mennet. The couple’s traumatic and traumatic experience giving birth to their first son, Gray, in the late 1990s, served as the basis for Newell’s design of the last boss in “Half-Life.”

He underwent two corneal transplants in 2006 and 2007 despite having Fuchs’ dystrophy, a congenital disorder that affects the cornea. On a Burroughs mainframe computer, he enjoys playing Star Trek, Doom, and Super Mario 64.

Newell attributes the games Doom and Super Mario 64 by persuading him that video games were not only entertainment but also works of art.

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