When they were at their old location in Bellevue I worked just a few floors up. Their offices are tiny, only a couple of floors for the whole company. It really showed that if you have a banger product you don’t need to scale up to hundreds of thousands of employees. They’re employees are dedicated, they know exactly what they’re doing, and their business supports them.
I don’t really get why this is a story. They have a smaller staff than game studios who are producing far more complicated properties. That’s not surprising. What they build is a large app and network, but this seems normal to me.
There’s so little news about Valve that anything is worth writing an article about, apparently.
There’s not a lot of industries where the dominant player is such a lean company