The History of Valve Corporation

With the success of Microsoft, Mike Harrington and former Harvard dropout, Gabe Newell were very pleased about the fruits of their labors, they were essentially millionaires. Wondering what they should do next, they thought up plans of forming their own company. Since they had enough capital from working at Microsoft, all they needed was an idea. After seeing releases like Doom and Quake being so successful, they were certain about the direction they wanted to go. Hence in 1996, Mike Harrington and Gabe Newell left Microsoft to pursue their own video game company. They founded Valve, LLC, later that same year.