THE VIDEO SHELF · valve company culture
Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker
Gabe Newell, founder of Valve, gives a talk at the LBJ School on productivity, economics, political institutions and the future of corporations. He discusses Valve's hiring and pay, its flat structure and an open-office anecdote.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it for how Valve works: hiring unconventional talent, paying by value, firing as aggressively as hiring, and why open offices fail.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The LBJ School
- Topic
- valve company culture
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2017
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MakingOfGames on Hacker News · 2014-05
In Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999)One of my favourite anecdotes about open offices is 22m in to this video[1], where Gabe Newell of Valve talks about his desire to have one office per person and how it didn't work out in practice. Bonus: he mentions Peopleware. [1] [VIDEO]
teamonkey on Hacker News · 2015-03
In Ending the open office epidemic
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