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  Conduct some research and complete some profiles of current practitioners within the media industry                                  that inspire you or may influence your career paths in the future? Who working in the media industry inspires you? - Gabe Newell: Who dropped out of Harvard to join Microsoft, leaving to form his game company Valve. What role do they play in the industry? Which media company/companies have they worked for?     Gabe Newell is one of the founders of valve,  Newell and another employee,  Mike Harrington , left Microsoft to found the video game company Valve on August 24, 1996.  Newell and Harrington funded development of the first Valve game, the first-person shooter  Half-Life  ,  which was a critical and commercial success.  Harrington left in 2000.      Newell led the development of Valve's digital distribu...