Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has granted a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). The chat covers everything from Newell's current daily routine ("get up, work, go scuba diving") to his earliest days as a programmer: and how he ended up at Microsoft.
One particularly interesting digression comes when Newell first gets access to a computer: until that point, the only programmable device he'd known was his Texas Instruments calculator. A common element in the youth of people who went on to do great things in the computer industry, in the early 1970s, was being near an educational institution that actually had a computer: and would let the kids play around with it.
