Gabe Newell Net Worth, Age, Profile, Wife, Ama, Weight Loss

Gabe Newell age, born November 3, 1962 (age 54) is an American computer programmer and businessman best known as the co-founder and president of, Valve Corporation. For Celebrity Net Worth, Gabe Newell net worth is US$ 4.1 billion dollars.

Gabe Newell Net Worth is made most of his career which started when he started his professional work at technology giant, Microsoft in early 1980 and became part of team which worked on first Microsoft Windows. During his time at firm he and Mike Harrington were impressed with game like id Software’s Doom and Quake.

Both were so inspired by this new entertainment industry that they left Microsoft and co-founded their own company, Valve in 1996 which started Gabe Newell net worth journey. Valve later became household name of every young video game player after they released their two most famous games, Counter Strike and Half-Life.

The first game that Gabe invested in was Half-Life and now it can be said that this was a good decision, as it soon became very popular. The success of this game had a huge influence on the growth of Gabe Newell’s net worth. Later the sequel for this game was created and it also gained a lot of popularity.

In 2010 Forbes Magazine named Gabe as one of the people who’s Name You Should Know, and in 2013 Newell received the BAFTA Fellowship Award for his outstanding and exceptional creative contribution to the video games industry. These confirm that Gabe is considered to be one of the most successful businessmen in the world and few steps behind his former boss Bill Gates as Gabe Newell Net Worth was also booming at the time.

Valve Corporation has gone on to produce such other popular video games as Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Portal and others. In December 2010, Forbes named Newell as A Name You Should Know, mostly for his work with Steamworks. In March 2013, Newell was the recipient of the BAFTA Fellowship Award for his outstanding and exceptional creative contribution to the video games industry.

Gabe is married to Lisa Mennet and has two sons. He suffered from Fuchs dystrophy, a congenital disease which affects the cornea, but was cured by two cornea transplants in 2006 and 2007. His favorite games are Super Mario 64, Doom and Star Trek played on a Burroughs mainframe computer.

Newell credits the game Doom with convincing him that video games were the future of entertainment, and credits Super Mario 64 with convincing him that video games were art. Making Valve Corporation one of the leading pillar in Online gaming industry with an extended Gabe Newell Net Worth.

Gabe Newell Wife, Lisa Newell who he married in 1996 and couple have two sons. Gabe Newell house is in Long Beach, Washington and has an exclusive collection of more than 600 knives of all types.

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