Gabe Newell was recently quoted by the NY Times as saying his company is more likely to "disintegrate" before it was ever sold.

Gabe Newell was recently quoted by the NY Times as saying his company is more likely to "disintegrate" before it was ever sold.

Mr. Newell said that there was a better chance that Valve would "disintegrate," its independent-minded workers scattering, than that it would ever be sold. "It’s way more likely we would head in that direction than say, ‘Let’s find some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate,’ " he says.