This is one of the best indicators among technology companies.
Part of Valve’s internal documents provided to the court during antitrust proceedings with the Wolfire Games studio has been published. The documents are heavily edited, but they still contain interesting points.
For example, GameDiscoverCo writes, one of the documents contains the results of an internal assessment of Valve’s performance conducted by company employees in 2018. It turned out that in terms of profit per employee, Valve was already extremely efficient back then.
According to the calculations of the employees themselves, per year, one Valve employee accounts for more than $780 thousand in profit. The exact figure is secret, but it is clear that Valve is ahead of Facebook*, Apple, Microsoft and other technology companies. It can be assumed that Valve's revenue has not fallen since 2018.
In some cases, Valve's superiority can be called total. For example, the company's profit per employee is at least 5 times higher than that of Microsoft or Intel.
Such results are explained, on the one hand, by the high revenue and margins of Valve, which mainly makes money from selling third-party games through the Steam store. The second reason is the relatively small number of Valve employees.
At the time of writing, Valve had approximately 350 employees. At the same time, Apple had about 123 thousand employees, Netflix had approximately 5,400 employees.
* Belongs to Meta, a recognized extremist organization in Russia.
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