G Fat Talks about the Difference Between Billionaire and Ordinary People: Lucky

2025-08-06 22:19:27|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

In a long interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell attributed his billions of wealth to "luck" and "good people around him."

When asked if there is an essential difference between "extremely rich entrepreneurs" and ordinary people, G Fat said that the idea of the existence of this difference stems from "untenable analysis."

"There is a concept called 'survivor bias' here - when you only study people in a particular group, you may ignore the fact that although they share certain characteristics, there is no real causal relationship between these characteristics."

G Fat doesn’t think that his success comes from some innate personality advantage or some ancient and mysterious LinkedIn posting skills, but says he is “very lucky” to work with early Microsoft employees like Neil Konzen, Doug Klunder, and Jeff Harbers in the wave of the personal computer revolution.

"The reason I am able to get to this day is because I have been lucky enough to be surrounded by these people, and the dice of fate continues to roll in my favor."

Of course, G Fat plays the cards that he plays beautifully.In 1996, G Fat co-founded Valve with another former Microsoft employee Mike Harrington.The company's first game, Half Life, became a hit. Valve could have expanded its workforce step by step, launched popular games, and eventually grew into a large listed game company like Ubisoft or EA.

In that case, Valve will still be a successful case.But if it really follows that path, it may have been acquired by Microsoft today, and G Fat is likely to be busy drafting a "reasonable explanation" to dismiss 100 employees one after another.

However, Valve chose to keep its operations private and took decisive action at critical moments, with an amazing record.They collaborated with MOD producers to release works that changed the trajectory of the game industry, such as "Counter-Strike", "Half-Life 2", "League Fortress 2", "Portway", and "DOTA2", and at the same time, they used the Source engine to redefine the PC game technology framework.

More importantly, Valve launched Steam in the early 2000s. It was the first to establish a digital distribution platform for PC games a few years before console manufacturers entered digital distribution. With the popularity of broadband, Steam gradually became the de facto PC game platform.

Steam functions such as friend system, seasonal sale, community market, early access, user evaluation system, and the "Green Light Plan" (later replaced by self-service listing) that once provided independent developers with a listing channel, have greatly affected the ecology of PC games and even the entire game industry.

In recent years, Valve has also vigorously promoted the development of Linux gaming platforms through SteamOS and Steam Deck, which may also become the key to our future review of "another revolutionary move."

Of course, Valve has made mistakes, and whether a company has such strong powers and whether a person has so many knives and yachts is right remains to be discussed, but it is beyond doubt that G Fat and Valve have played a direct and extremely important role in making PC games into mainstream activities today.

G Fat looks at his lifelong career from the perspective of "the right time, place, and people".

He concluded: "Of course I really want to say that I am a great person. All this is what I deserve and is a reflection of my awesomeness... But in fact, there are a lot of luck in it."

In another part of the interview, G Fat also mentioned that he originally thought he would become a doctor, but an encounter with Microsoft's Steve Ballmer finally led him to the career path of a programmer.

In addition to Valve, G Fat also founded a neuroscience company called Starfish, and an ocean exploration organization called Inkfish.

Netizens are worried that G Fat's retirement may damage Steam's future. The recent storm of Steam removing adult games under pressure has caused many PC players to feel cold on their backs

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