Being video gamers, you likely are familiar with the Valve co-founder and president. But Forbes, business list-maker extraordinaire, has taken notice and looks to feature Gabe Newell in a December magazine roundup of influential people and concepts.
Forbes isnāt doing this because it expects Episode 3 sometime next year. The numbers it likes are 70 percent ā one industryās estimate for how much market share Steam controls; 200 percent, the sales growth itās seen over the past 12 months, andĀ ??? million ā a revenue figure that must be in the hundreds, Forbes speculates, as a 2005 profile of the private, tight-lipped company had its revenue figure at $70 million.
Itās not richest nor most powerful person in the world, nor top 10 of either, but Gabe isnāt doing too bad.
