How can I buy the Steam enterprise and become the master of the game world?

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CedLeVrai 27 Jul @ 6:44am

How much money?

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Chika Ogiue 27 Jul @ 6:47am

You can't. Specifically even, Gabe has it written in his will.

Anonymous Helper 27 Jul @ 7:19am

Gabe owns controlling share (50.1% or more) of Valve so unless you can convince Gabe to sell his shares to you, you can't buy the company even if you somehow managed to acquire rest of the stock from other owners.

While Valve have been valued at around 8 billion USD, that's a fraction of what it's really worth considering Valve generates over 8 billion in revenue (high point of ~13 billion, 10 billion coming from Steam alone, during COVID).

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d3str0y3r 27 Jul @ 7:25am

Valve is a privately owned company so you cannot buy shares or stock in the company.

Kargor 27 Jul @ 8:33am

Originally posted by d3str0y3r:
Valve is a privately owned company so you cannot buy shares or stock in the company.

Of course you can. It's just that you cannot go to some stock market and buy stuff -- you'll have to call the actual owners and negotiate with them.

Mannenuanen 27 Jul @ 10:59am

Unless GOG/Blizzard/EA/Ubisoft or other company like that trying to make their own dent in gaming industry will let you buy them, closest thing to that would be making your own enterprise.

Wolfpig 27 Jul @ 11:13am

Originally posted by d3str0y3r:
Valve is a privately owned company so you cannot buy shares or stock in the company.

You know....privately owned companies sometimes actively search for people to invest into their venture open for public, sometimes they do that less public.

I guess you know those series like shark tank (or what it is called in the country you life).
That is exactly the same, people who try to gain money for their company shares.

Only difference is that valve most likely is not in need to search for additional investors right now.

cinedine 27 Jul @ 3:25pm

Originally posted by d3str0y3r:
Valve is a privately owned company so you cannot buy shares or stock in the company.

Privately owned doesn't mean they don't have shares.
As a matter of fact Vale is a corportation - wich means they do have shareholders according to the capital they put in.

Shares and stocks are different things.

CedLeVrai 27 Jul @ 4:10pm

Hmmm...
will take it with the help of Trump and others masters of the world as Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
Force is in the union! Steam will fall under my control!

It was the minute of God.

You can return to play your games, now. Thanks of lot for sharing your ideas to be master of the world.