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>If you had to pick a tech company to leverage your disruptive new consumer technology, and make sure it kept the 'awesome', and was hacker friendly, who would

>If you had to pick a tech company to leverage your disruptive new consumer technology, and make sure it kept the 'awesome', and was hacker friendly, who would you go to? Valve.

aryastark 13y ago
Or Blizzard. They have an actual virtual world already. I can easily see WoW fans who already sit at a PC and buy special hardware for their games to flock to VR tech.
- ericd 13y ago
  Yeah, there are so many companies that I'd have picked over FB if I were them. Blizzard and Valve would have been excellent choices, though.
lotu 13y ago
Does Valve have $2billion dollars lying around to acquire companies with?
- fleetfox 13y ago
  Yes
  - masklinn 13y ago
    Don't think so. Valve's total equity was estimated at ~$2.5bn in 2012
    - zerooneinfinity 13y ago
      Just curious where you got the source for this -- no pun intended.
      - masklinn 13y ago
        http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-game-maker-with-few-rules.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all& http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-g... > Not that Mr. Newell hasn’t had opportunities to sell out. Valve has been pursued over the years by Electronic Arts, which would very likely have valued Valve at well over $1 billion had the talks progressed that far, said two people with knowledge of the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private. > Although Valve’s finances are private, Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, estimates that the company could be worth around $2.5 billion today. It's guesswork and no method is explained though, so it's not like that's a very reliable estimate or anything.
        zerooneinfinity 13y ago
        Ah interesting, thanks for following up.
anaphor 13y ago
Or even Nintendo, or maybe even Bethesda (assuming they aren't bitter about him leaving Id)
- icelancer 13y ago
  Bethesda already passed on it.

>If you had to pick a tech company to leverage your disruptive new consumer technology, and make sure it kept the 'awesome', and was hacker friendly, who would you go to? Valve.

aryastark 13y ago

Or Blizzard. They have an actual virtual world already. I can easily see WoW fans who already sit at a PC and buy special hardware for their games to flock to VR tech.

ericd 13y ago
Yeah, there are so many companies that I'd have picked over FB if I were them. Blizzard and Valve would have been excellent choices, though.

lotu 13y ago

Does Valve have $2billion dollars lying around to acquire companies with?

fleetfox 13y ago
Yes
- masklinn 13y ago
  Don't think so. Valve's total equity was estimated at ~$2.5bn in 2012
  - zerooneinfinity 13y ago
    Just curious where you got the source for this -- no pun intended.
    - masklinn 13y ago
      http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-game-maker-with-few-rules.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all& http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-g... > Not that Mr. Newell hasn’t had opportunities to sell out. Valve has been pursued over the years by Electronic Arts, which would very likely have valued Valve at well over $1 billion had the talks progressed that far, said two people with knowledge of the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private. > Although Valve’s finances are private, Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, estimates that the company could be worth around $2.5 billion today. It's guesswork and no method is explained though, so it's not like that's a very reliable estimate or anything.
      - zerooneinfinity 13y ago
        Ah interesting, thanks for following up.

anaphor 13y ago

Or even Nintendo, or maybe even Bethesda (assuming they aren't bitter about him leaving Id)

icelancer 13y ago
Bethesda already passed on it.