Gabe Newell’s cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he ‘delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did’

I am not sure that there is a personality in the sports industry that people are more interesting than Gabie Newville. It has an interesting mystery, which is strange, provided you can just email it and get an answer. But nevertheless, there is a slight difference of personality around the human being, to the extent that he sometimes becomes a stand for the valve.

Sometimes it is a joke – different gibmes around steam sales, ‘admire Gabin,’ such a thing – and sometimes it is more serious, like people’s real fear that the steam becomes faster after the new boss is no longer the boss.