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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 39 points 5 months ago

Valve is the living proof that you can have great service and still be profitable. Will capitalists learn? No

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 months ago

Why have great service and be profitable when you can have terrible service and be 1.6% more profitable?

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Correction: Be just as profitable but cash out on that profit slightly sooner.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago

More like far less profitable over years, but far more this quarter. And when it inevitably goes south because you're squeezing too hard? Who cares, on to the next company!

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