Is he right?

Retards who waste money on VC nonsense are not the kind of people who listen to reason.

>>105949637 (OP)
>fat ass drm kike says thing
kys valvenigger

He looks skinnier now. Not skinny at all ofc but he's definitely uninstalled some DLC.

Steam makes $900 million a month

>>105949637 (OP)
He’s 100% right, people looking for investors are always welfare Queens wanting an ipo or a buyout. No one wants to build a lifetime business anymore

>>105949687
Just ignore the distractions and you will be able to build a $900 million / month business as well.

>>105949656
>waste money on VC
What? If anything VCs are a quick way to get tons of money at the sacrifice of a small share of your company.

>>105949637 (OP)
He is right. The trick is to become successful organically, then have the greedy VCs try to approach you after to offer you money, then you create the opportunity to fuck with the VCs like they fuck with others, and then deny them and laugh at them.

VCs just want to swoop in and fuck everything up, you should measure success by being able to see them coming and make them seethe.

Gabe is finance-phobic of course he doesn’t believe in taking VC money, he doesn’t believe in borrowing period and has a cash cow to lean on, of course that model works for him. Im sure if everyone stopped making games outside steam to compete with him and were forced to work with valve directly to get anything to market he would be thrilled, old school Microsoft through and through.

This is completely observable in the negative press events valve has had, one day they will fuck up hard and will not have the necessary infrastructure to survive, it will gut them.

>>105949637 (OP)
why should startup founder reject free money? Its just scammers scamming each other and then scamming the public while the bubble keeps growing and society degrades.

>>105949922
>why should startup founder reject free money?
For not wanting to give up on 7% equity of his company.

>>105949637 (OP)
isn't this the same fat jew who deceived billions of retards that renting a game for an indefinite time is buying?

What's wrong with voice channels?

>valve
>gambling
Opinon discarted

There are basically no low hanging fruit left when it comes to startups so funding is almost required to make anything of value these days

>>105949922
Key phrase 'startup culture' = seeking VC gibs. See >>105949839

>>105950010
There's more ways to get funding than giving half your company to vampires.

>>105950028
Like what? Going broke trying to bootstrap it yourself?

>>105949919
great take, now finish your game and take your pills Jasmine

>>105949687
Valve also stopped making new games besides updating dota and CSGO. No distractions. Only steam and 2 games kek.

>>105950028
Such as? Literally no one will fund your startup expecting absolutely nothing in return.
The calculation you need to do is if you can use the money to actually increase the revenue or not.

>>105950133
They have like 350 employees. It's not a big company

>>105949637 (OP)
Dam right we kick you ass Yankee pig

>>105950328
40 people made Halo CE. 30 people made Red Alert 1.

How is a company almost 9 times bigger that is making one new game and has 2 on life support not big?

Surely steam doesn't need 200 employees to run.

>>105950399
A lot of it is probably CS and sales

>>105950399
They service 132,000,000 users. Half of that or more is probably just IT jannies.

>>105950149
Nvidia et al will give you hella grants if your name is jim keller

Gaben was already rich from working at Microshaft at the right time. So he was able to risk his own money on his company, which almost went bust twice. His experience says nothing about VCs one way or the other.

>>105949637 (OP)
This is extremely antisemitic. How are all of those Unit 8200 guys going to fleece the boomertech goyim now?

>>105950949
It's not exactly a unique opinion. VC is just banks and universities gambling with peoples' retirement funds, and mostly losing money. They'd all be hanged if they were doing it with hard currency.

>>105949637 (OP)
Sure let me dip into my $900,000,000/mo mountain of cash that I get from leeching off other people’s work. I’ll just compete with multibillion dollar tech corporations from my basement like a good goy who doesn’t know when a ladder is being pulled up in front of him.

>>105951003
I like when they destroy good companies