Valve Makes More Money Per Employee Than Google Or Apple

Here’s an interesting figure: Valve makes more money per employee than Google or Apple.
While we can easily figure out how much the publicly traded Google and
Apple make per employee, estimating what Valve pulls in is trickier.
Valve has done quite well selling video games – over 12 million copies
of Half-Life 2 alone – but Valve is even better at selling everyone
else’s games – not just its own – in Steam.

Steam is an online video game distribution program owned by Valve; it
controls an estimated 50-70% of the $4 billion per year market for
downloaded games. Valve’s founder, Gabe Newell, says that the 250-person
company brought in “high hundreds of millions of dollars” in 2010.
Although, they have not released their financials, over 30 million
people using Steam so it’s easy to assume they are doing as well as he
says.

The company is valued at $2-4 billion which is reasonable considering
Zynga’s value of $4-6 billion – and they got that just from some farm
game. However, it’s funny that a company that isn’t dealing in
advertising or shiny gewgaws is actually making the most cash per
capita.

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