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It will never go public - they are making money over fist and have no reason to participate in public capital markets. They also aren't really interested in growing. The trade off is that not everyone will be able to get a job there.
The question is how long that mindset will survive once Gaben leaves. Or dies.
We need to upload him into a GabenOS of sorts. To preserve the Valve mindset, and also for science.
Some neurotoxin and mass murder would be a small price to pay.
To be a little more serious, I think there us a lot less risk that anything could happen. It is too profitable. I think of valve more like a company like Rolex, where they are crazy profitable and can do whatever they want.
No one can predict the future, and someone can always screw it all up with bad management. But I would predict that it is more likely that they would get bought out by Berkshire or something before going public or getting acquired by some VC firm.
Issue isn't now but the future. Gabe is content on what he and the company earned, he didn't feel the need to stuck an ever-growing tumor into his company. The story will be different when he's no longer the head of the company, unless Gabe made an unbreakable rule for the company to never go public, the chance of some next-in-line getting greedy on setting themselves and their next few descendant for life is pretty high.
But you can say that about anything. No one can predict the future.
Hopefully, if GabeN leaves, the next manager will be smart and manage steam well. Or they will be not smart and make bad decisions.
Emm yeah do you realise you're the one saying "they will never went public"?
I think it is very unlikely. But you are going "what about in the future?" Well, I still think it is unlikely. And then you can go "What about after that?" Well okay, I still think it is unlikely, even then. "How about after that though?"
Damn, okay, they are going to go public, all their developers will go on strike, make everyone buy all their steam library all over again and start selling GLaDOS NFTs. Is that what you want to hear? It's just a very funny comment. Yes, I don't think they will ever go public, till the end of time. The world will be a burnt out husk before Valve goes public.
Oof, you sound upset.
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Dude, fucking stop!
"Oof, you sound upset"
oof, we can't have a debate here now.
Not exactly unprecedented, see e.g. Bosch, Zeiss, or, staying in the US, Mozilla.