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ClassyJacket on June 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valve has mutated from a game developer into a fin...

Valve was founded by ex Microsoft devs wasn't it?

anxman on June 5, 2019 [–]

Yes. Gabe was the PM for Windows 95.

He and Michael Harrington founded Valve a year afterwards. I asked Gabe over email if it was because it was the 1 year anniversary of Windows 95 launch but he said Valve was actually founded on his wedding day.

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