Valve had 71 peoples working in their steam division in 2021. 31 where admin so that leaves 40 people for all their hardware. I’m going to take a wild guess and say maybe 3 to 5 were working on things linux related.
I’d call that leveraging at that amount of people, for a company that brings in an estimated 6.5 billion a year, and the fact that most of the code was already there.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad linux got a boost out of it but there’s no doubt in my mind he would have built a private OS if it could be done with 5 people. It was a bargain for him, it wasn’t a favor.
Just so we’re clear here – you pulled your original numbers out of nowhere, but made them oddly specific (71) to give the impression that you were citing an actual source.
That is hilariously pathetic.
And barely even matters since you’re ignoring 90% of the comment you replied to (financing and partnerships).
Just really paints a picture of how boring, basic, and uninformed your opinion is, for all the cockiness you came in here with.
[citations needed]
letmegooglethat.com/?q=valve+number+of+employees+…
This isn’t hard to find. I don’t give sources when it’s literally in the first few links on Google.
Not a single one of those links says Valve had 71 people in their Steam division in 2021.
Can’t even back your own claims. What a joke.
One data point I found interesting: Valve peaked with its “Games” payroll spending in 2017 at $221 million (the company didn’t release any new games that year, but that spending could have gone toward supporting games like Dota 2 and developing new games like Artifact); by 2021, that was down to $192 million. Another: as of 2021, Valve employed just 79 people for Steam, which is one of the most influential gaming storefronts on the planet.
“Hardware,” to my surprise, has been a relatively small part of the company, with just 41 employees paid a gross of more than $17 million in 2021.
From the verge article
Here’s the topline from 2021: Of those 336 employees, 79 directly worked on Steam, while a whopping 181 remained in the “Games” department—pretty much the reverse of what I expected, given Steam’s importance to company profits and how rarely Valve releases new games. There were just 41 employees working on hardware development at that time
From the PC gamer article right under.
Literally the first two links, at least for me. Are you done being an idiot?
I missed the mark on total number of steam employees by 9. They have 79 employees total for Steam. 71 or 79, it is still an insanely low number
LOL 79 - 71 = 8, not 9. Can’t even do basic math on your made up numbers.
Note that most people that valve pays to work on open source were preixisting maintainers and not actual employees, or employees of companies like Blue Systems
null@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Disingenuous? Dumb? Who knows!?
AHAHAHAHAHA every developer in the thread is absolutely cackling at you right now.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve never actually blocked someone on lemmy before, but you’re just answering every one of my comments with mindless dribble lol
null@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
You are more than welcome to:
If you want to keep spouting them off, go right ahead. But I’m going to mock you for it.
Plug your ears if you’re incapable of upping your game.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is hard because you’re (imo) very wrong and not being super nice about it, but null is being so rude i almost want to agree with you