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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.
Newell led the development of Valve's digital distribution service, [[Steam (service)|Steam]], which was launched in 2003 and controlled most of the market for downloaded PC games by 2011. As of 2021, Newell owned at least one quarter of Valve. He has been estimated as one of the wealthiest people in the United States and the wealthiest person in the [[Video game industry|video games industry]], with a net worth of {{US$|3.9 billion|long=no}} as of 2021.{{Citation needed|reason=The Tim Sweeney article claims higher worth|date=March 2024}} He is also the owner of the [[Oceanography|marine research]] organization Inkfish.
== Early life and education ==
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