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Gabe Newell
Gabe Logan Newell, known by his nickname Gaben, is an American video game developer and businessman who is the co-founder and president of the video game company Valve.
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business · American businessman (born 1962) · game designer · entrepreneur · programmer · computer scientist · video game designer · also Gabe Newell, Gaben, Gabe Logan Newell, GabeN, Lord Gaben, Newell
Born 3 November 1962 · Q347418
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2025· 2 entries
Reported net worth: $9.5B (as of 2025).
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Forbes estimated that Newell owned at least half of Valve and had a net worth of $11 billion
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Valve Software co-founder and president Gabe Newell announced the long-awaited video game sequel Portal 3 in a post on X.” Labeled Satire.
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2022· 1 entry
With Philip Sabes, Newell co-founded the neuroscience company Starfish Neuroscience to develop neural interfaces
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2020· 3 entries
Published “Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes” in Nature — cited 2,835 times.
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Newell and the Valve employee Yahn Bernier created a car racing team, the Heart of Racing, to raise funds for children's charities in Seattle and New Zealand
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Published “The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer” in Nature — cited 3,346 times.
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2018· 3 entries
Newell donated $20 million to the American artificial intelligence company OpenAI and acted as an informal advisor
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Published “Dimensionality reduction for visualizing single-cell data using UMAP” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 4,987 times.
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Also recorded a "deadpan" self-referential voice pack for the Valve game Dota 2
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2016· 3 entries
Published “Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science — cited 3,090 times.
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Published “Defining urban resilience: A review” in Landscape and Urban Planning — cited 2,739 times.
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Published “Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer” in Nature — cited 3,304 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’” in Landscape and Urban Planning — cited 3,686 times.
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded D.I.C.E. Awards (2013).
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Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2013).
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Newell was added to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame and received the BAFTA Fellowship for his contributions to the video game industry
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2011· 1 entry
Newell said his favorite games included Super Mario 64, Doom, and a Burroughs mainframe version of the 1971 Star Trek game, which was the first game he ever played
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2009· 1 entry
IGN named Newell one of the top 100 game creators, writing that it was "almost impossible to gauge" Valve's influence on game design, technology and the video games industry
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2007· 1 entry
Newell expressed his displeasure over developing for game consoles, saying that developing processes for Sony's PlayStation 3 was a "waste of everybody's time"
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2003· 1 entry
And controlled most of the market for downloaded PC games by 2011
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1996· 2 entries
Newell and Mike Harrington left Microsoft to found Valve and fund the development of their first game, Half-Life (1998)
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Career landmark: president (1996).
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1983· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University (1980–1983).
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1980· 1 entry
Newell enrolled at Harvard University to study programming
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1974· 1 entry
Published “The Inverse Scattering Transform‐Fourier Analysis for Nonlinear Problems” in Studies in Applied Mathematics — cited 2,690 times.
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1962· 2 entries
Born 1962-11-03.
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At Aspen Valley Hospital in Aspen, Colorado, as the son of Donald Newell
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