Gabe Logan Newell is an American businessman and the co-founder and president of the video game developer and digital distribution company Valve. He was educated at Davis Senior High School and attended Harvard University in the early 1980s before dropping out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first iterations of the Windows operating system. With Mike Harrington, he left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve; Harrington left in 2000, leaving Newell as the sole owner. As of 2020, Newell had a net worth of approximately US$4 billion.
