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> Gabe Newell (Valve’s CEO, founder and, if I’m not wrong, its only shareholder) keeps giving interviews where he states that “he doesn’t want to sell“. Many ta
by skore 14y ago
> Gabe Newell (Valve’s CEO, founder and, if I’m not wrong, its only shareholder) keeps giving interviews where he states that “he doesn’t want to sell“. Many take him at face value. Well. Firstly, in M&A, when you don’t want to sell you just don’t. There’s no need to blab to the press about it.
Except, I dunno, when they ask you?
> Secondly, if your statements appear in the press, it usually means that what you are saying is: “I am not for sale. Unless you offer more than X. Then we’d totally sell out.” I believe this is the message Mr. Newell is trying to convey.
Yes, we clearly live in that kind of world. The kind of world where the unwavering position that a highly achieved person demonstrates in almost everything they do has to be suspicious. You know what you should also do? Pepper your article with lots of pointless statistics and expletives. Because that totally helps make it seem more credible. Numbers! Charts! Fuck! Am I cool yet!?
> Did anyone ever question why, suddenly, all these articles about company culture are appearing?
Because you've only been paying attention the past couple months.
> Valve is reportedly working on a Steam Linux box. This can only be intended to remove the Windows license and its concomitant restrictions from the market.
Yes, clearly that's the only intent possible.
Phew. Ok guys, I enjoy picking apart nonsense blog crap just as much as the next HN user, but this one makes it so easy that it's already getting boring a couple minutes in.
- 10098 14y ago> Numbers! Charts! Fuck! Am I cool yet!? Upvote to you
- dasil003 14y agoAgreed on all points; however, he's making a bold and verifiable prediction here. If it comes true he's going to look like a fucking genius and if it doesn't it's just more forgotten sound and fury of the blogosphere.
- rodolfor 14y agoI was referring to articles on msm like the ones from the WSJ. Anything that goes there is a carefully choreographed dance between the journalist and the PR rep and a lot of questions end up on the cutting floor. Spending time explaining why this and why that is only done for a reason. If they are irrelevant there will be other talking points. Again as someone said below I made a very specific prediction in a verifiable timeframe. We'll see. I was not trying to be a genius but since I believe Valve will be acquired wanted to make a post about it.
- skore 14y ago> Anything that goes there is a carefully choreographed dance between the journalist and the PR rep You mean the PR rep that Valve is quite proud of not having? How about instead of busyworking the numbers to death, just listen to Gabe for an hour or so? There are plenty of talks/interviews of him to go around. If that doesn't give you a rather unmistakable impression of what he is up to then you have a calibration error. Maybe instead of talking msm, m&a, sales, profits and billions, try honing your human modules a little more. If Mr. Newell sells out to Microsoft, he's an idiot. From what I can tell, he is very much not an idiot. How's that for an analysis?