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At any reasonable estimate of Valve's revenue and valuation multiples, they're easily a billion dollar company, I'd be surprised if it was as low as only $1B. They have nearly 500 employees listed on LinkedIn[1] which is probably a decent estimate given people who've left but haven't updated their profiles and those without profiles in the first place. That's not a small company by any stretch, and I think we can all agree they're purposefully making the decision to not offer competent support.

[1] - https://www.linkedin.com/company/13922?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clic...



> I'd be surprised if it was as low as only $1B. They have nearly 500 employees

> That's not a small company by any stretch

Please, give me more examples of billion dollars companies which have only 500 employees.


Instagram. Oculus. WhatsApp. SuperCell. GungHo. Mojang. Twitch.tv.

It'd be easy to go on. And I'd bet there's no way Valve is just a $1 billion company.


I don't know about all of them, but do you realize that we are talking about 1B$ ACTUAL revenue in current dollars of sales, not valuation ? These are two very different things.


I'm pretty sure the discussion was about valuation / market cap:

> At any reasonable estimate of Valve's revenue and valuation multiples, they're easily a billion dollar company


They already most likely already have a billion in revenues.


How about valuations based on revenue then...


If they already have one billion in revenues their valuation is likely much higher than that.


Instagram, Oculus, WhatsApp, Twitch.tv don't have a billion dollar revenue.


That was precisely my point.




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