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# Gabe Newell has grown a Santa Claus beard and other news from the NYT Valve piece
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/gabe-newell-has-grown-santa-claus-beard-and-other-news-nyt-valve-piece/
- Published: 2012-09-10T14:30:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:53:16.000Z
- Description: Takeaways from the Times’ Saturday Valve profile: -Valve is working on a VR headset that appears to be in the same state of development as Larry David’s car periscope -It is strongly insinuated not rolling your desk around at Valve is a professional faux pas at best and a fireable offense at worst -
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Takeaways from the Times’ [Saturday Valve profile](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-game-maker-with-few-rules.html?pagewanted=all&ref=killscreen.com):

\-Valve is working on a VR headset that appears to be in the same state of development as [Larry David’s car periscope](http://perpetualpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/car-periscope-curb-your-enthusiasm-larry-david.png?ref=killscreen.com)

\-It is strongly insinuated not rolling your desk around at Valve is a professional faux pas at best and a fireable offense at worst

\-Reddit man-god Gabe Newell has grown a walrus beard