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Original Title: Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft ‘was missing the opportunity’ offered by the internet: ‘I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was’ | “And if I was wrong, I’d have to go back to Microsoft.”