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Valve's 336 Staff Did Not Make $50 Million Each. The Real Number Is a Quarter of That.
Games on Steam grossed roughly $5.5B (2017), ~$15.4B (2024), ~$17B to ~$20B (2025) and $11.1B in H1 2026 alone. Valve's own revenue was $4B+ from Steam (2025), ~$5B (2023) and ~$2.21B (2021). A source-typed ledger separating storefront volume from what Valve keeps, why the viral $50 million per employee figure is wrong by roughly four times, and what 79 people running Steam actually tells operators.
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