You never know, Gaben is getting older. Who knows what the next CEO of Valve will do?

At least with Valve we can hope its gonna be okay for 4 reasons:

1. Even though Gabe is formally CEO he from his own words was barelly controllibg company for years. He spend more time on his other projects.

2. Flat structure and and a small team. I know few people who has worked at Valve and while there are some downsides company of ~400 employees with a lot of internal power play is just more resilient than normal corporation. Many of people on the team are just rich enough already and they dont need to go and cash out.

3. From what is publicly known Valve is family owned basically since Gabe own major part of company. And while a lot of people would hate example of e.g Ubisoft its good example how family controlled business often sink before selling out.

4. It would be just hard to sell Valve and remove control from the team without destroying both company and gaming community goodwill.

Yet I fully agree that Valve just like other company can be sold off just for userbase and run to the ground.

Valve just have better chance to stay customer friendly than your overall VC/PE/BlackRock owned corporation with 10,000 employees and 50 for-hire top managers / board directors.