Gabe Newell
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American computer programmer and businessman
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Why Is Gabe Newell Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gabe Logan Newell , nicknamed Gaben, is an American businessman and the president of the video game company Valve. Newell was born in Colorado and grew up in Davis, California. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system. He and another employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, and funded the development of their first game, Half-Life . Harrington left in 2000.
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