{"id":1346,"date":"2017-02-20T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/gabe-newell-shares-how-hollywood-types-have-trouble-adjusting-to-valve\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T21:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T04:05:59","slug":"gabe-newell-shares-how-hollywood-types-have-trouble-adjusting-to-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/gabe-newell-shares-how-hollywood-types-have-trouble-adjusting-to-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabe Newell shares how Hollywood types have trouble adjusting to Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lot of different kinds of people work at Valve<\/a>, but one group may have difficulty fitting in at first.<\/p>\n

People who shift from working in Hollywood to working at Valve are in for some serious culture shock, according to company founder Gabe Newell. Valve, the publisher of games like Portal and the operator of the Steam, has a unique corporate structure where employees never need to seek approval to work on something. Instead, everyone is supposed to decide for themselves where they would make the biggest contribution.<\/p>\n

In order for Valve\u2019s work environment to function, people have to approach\u00a0it differently than other jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the consequences is that if somebody here says to somebody else, \u2018Why did you do that?\u2019 That\u2019s a really friendly question,\u201d Newell explained to a roundtable of media outlets including GamesBeat. \u201cThat\u2019s not an aggressive question. That means they actually care enough about what you\u2019re doing to be curious about your decision-making process, and they might have something to contribute. As opposed to, I\u2019m challenging your authority to make that decision and I\u2019m questioning the output of your process. That\u2019s one of the things that, when people come in from other industries to Valve, we have to train them a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Newell has found that people who come to Valve from Hollywood have an especially difficult time even with the training. He says that the environment in Hollywood is so controlled that no one from that business feels comfortable with working on their own. Instead, they are like a wounded animals who don\u2019t trust their new, easygoing master.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Most people] catch on pretty quick, unless they came from the movie industry, and then it takes them about a year,\u201d said Newell. \u201cIt\u2019s just the reality of the environments they\u2019re trained in \u2014 where even if somebody manages to trick you into showing some autonomy, you know that you\u2019ll be punished horribly for it. It\u2019s that beaten-dog thing. It takes a while before they think, OK, I\u2019ll show some independent thought here, and then they go and hide under their desk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, even those people come around and begin contributing to Valve\u2019s special infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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