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'''Gabe Logan Newell''' (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname '''Gaben''', is an American businessman who is a co-founder and the president of the video game company [[Valve Corporation]].
 
Newell was born in [[Colorado]] and grew up in [[Davis, California]]. He attended [[Harvard University]] in the early 1980s but dropped out to join [[Microsoft]], where he helped create the first versions of the [[Windows]] operating system. He and another employee, [[Mike Harrington]], left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, and funded the development of their first game, ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]'' (1998). Harrington left in 2000.