사용자:구순돌/연습장/게이브 뉴웰

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Gabe Newell
Newell in August 2018
본명Gabe Logan Newell
다른이름Gaben
출생1962년 11월 3일(1962-11-03)(61세)[1][2]
별칭Gaben
경력Co-founder and president, Valve
배우자Lisa Mennet Newell(1996년 결혼)
상훈

게이브 로건 뉴웰 (Gabe Logan Newell) (1962년 11월 3일생), 게이븐(Gaben)으로 불리우는 그는 미국의 사업가이자 비디오 게임 회사 밸브의 사장이다.

뉴웰은 콜로라도주에서 태어나 캘리포니아 주 데이비스에서 자랐다.그는 1980년대 초에 하버드 대학교에 다녔지만 마이크로소프트에 입사하기 위해 중퇴했고, 그곳에서 그는 윈도우 운영 체제의 첫 버전을 만드는 것을 도왔다.그와 또 다른 직원인 마이크 해링턴 (Mike Harrington)은 1996년 밸브를 설립하기 위해 마이크로소프트를 떠났다. 2000년 해링턴은 뉴웰을 단 하나의 소유자로 남겨두고 떠났다. 2021년 현재 그는 적어도 밸브의 1/4을 소유하고 있다.

뉴웰은 밸브의 디지털 배급 서비스인 스팀의 개발을 주도했으며, 이 서비스는 2003년에 시작되어 2011년까지 다운로드된 PC 게임 시장의 대부분을 장악했다. 그는 미국에서 가장 부유한 사람들 중 한 명이다. 포브스는 그의 순자산을 39억 달러로 추정했다.

어린 시절과 마이크로소프트 경력[편집]

Newell was born on November 3, 1962, in Colorado, and attended Davis Senior High School in Davis, California.[4][5] He enrolled at Harvard University in 1980, but was convinced to drop out to work for Bill Gates at Microsoft by the head of sales in 1983.[4] He spent the next 13 years as the lead developer of the first three releases of the Windows operating systems, making him a millionaire.[6] Newell later said he learned more during his first three months at Microsoft than he ever did at Harvard, which was one of the primary reasons why he dropped out.[7]

In late 1995, Doom, a 1993 first-person shooter game developed by id Software, was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 95. Newell said: "[id] ... didn't even distribute through retail, it distributed through bulletin boards and other pre-internet mechanisms. To me, that was a lightning bolt. Microsoft was hiring 500-people sales teams and this entire company was 12 people, yet it had created the most widely distributed software in the world. There was a sea change coming."[8] At Microsoft, Newell led development on a port of Doom for Windows 95; the port is credited for helping make Windows a viable game platform.[9]

밸브[편집]

Newell accepting the Pioneer Award at the 2010 Game Developers Conference

Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the game Quake at id, Newell and another employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft to found the video game company Valve on August 24, 1996.[6][4] Newell and Harrington funded development of the first Valve product, the first-person shooter Half-Life (1998). Harrington left in 2000, leaving Newell as the sole owner.[10]

During the production of Half-Life 2 (2004), Newell spent several months developing Steam, a digital distribution service for games.[11] By 2011, Steam controlled between 50% and 70% of the market for downloaded PC games and generated most of Valve's revenue.[12] In December 2010, Forbes named Newell "A Name You Should Know", primarily for his work on Steam having partnerships with multiple major developers.[13]

In 2007, Newell expressed his displeasure over developing software for game consoles, saying that developing processes for Sony's PlayStation 3 was a "waste of everybody's time"[14][15] Newell appeared on stage at Sony's keynote at E3 2010; while acknowledging his criticism of console development, he discussed the open nature of the PlayStation 3 and announced Portal 2 for the console, remarking that with Steamworks support it would be the best version for any console.[16] Newell also criticized the Xbox Live service, referring to it as a "train wreck",[17] and was also critical of Windows 8, calling it a threat to the open nature of PC gaming.[18] At the 2013 LinuxCon, Newell said that the Linux operating system and open source development were "the future of gaming". He accused companies like Microsoft and Apple's proprietary systems of stifling innovation through sluggish certification processes.[19]

In 2013, Newell was added to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.[20] That March, he received the BAFTA Fellowship award for his contributions to the video game industry.[21] In October 2017, Forbes listed Newell among the 100 wealthiest people in the United States, with an estimated net worth of US$5.5틀:Narrow no-break spacebillion.[22][23] In December 2021, Forbes estimated that Newell had a net worth of US$틀:Narrow no-break space3.9 billion[24] and owned at least one quarter of Valve.[25] According to Charlie Fish, author of The History of Video Games, as of 2021 Newell was the richest person in the video game industry.[4]

개인사[편집]

Newell in 2002

Newell formerly suffered from Fuchs' dystrophy, a congenital disease which affects the cornea, but was cured by two cornea transplants in 2006 and 2007.[26] He married Lisa Mennet on the same day he founded Valve with Harrington.[27][28][29][4] They have two sons.[30][31] The birth of his eldest son in the late 1990s served as inspiration for the final boss of Half-Life, as the couple considered childbirth to be the most frightening thing they could think of at the time.[32] As of 2019, Newell and Mennet had divorced.[33]

In 2011, Newell said his favorite video games included Super Mario 64, Doom, and a Burroughs mainframe version of Star Trek.[34] Doom convinced him that games were the future of entertainment, and Super Mario 64 convinced him that games are a form of art.[34] Newell is a fan of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.[35][4] Newell also recorded a voice pack for Dota 2, a Valve-developed game, which referenced many previous statements and phrases from himself in a humorous manner.[36]

Within the gaming community, Newell has the nickname Gaben, derived from his work email address.[37] Newell said that he has tried to grow into his public image: "They hug me when they run into me. I'm not a hugging person, but that's what they want. I was with my kids the first time that happened in public, and my kids were pretty cool with it. But I wasn't. 'Dad, roll with it.' Even now, I'm learning from our customers."[38]

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Newell resided in New Zealand with a group of friends electing to stay in Auckland rather than returning to Seattle once airlines travel restrictions were eased.[39] As an expression of gratitude for New Zealand's hospitality, Newell and others planned a free event, "We Love Aotearoa", with live performances from musical artists across New Zealand. This was accompanied by VR stands for Valve games such as Half-Life: Alyx and The Lab.[40] The event was postponed from August to December due to a lockdown induced by a second wave of COVID-19 in the country.[39][41] In October, Newell applied for permanent residency in New Zealand, but said he did not intend to take Valve offices with him.[42][43][44] In 2021, he returned to Valve in Seattle.[45]

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