How Valve hires, how it fires, and how much it pays 
FTA's comments:<p><i>> all is good when the money is flowing.</i><p>That really struck me. Everything is all good when the money is flowing. It doesn't matter whether you work at a bank, a law firm, a defence contractor or a sales agency - no matter what the structure, or how people are organized, everything works when the money is flowing.<p>Now, what I'm really interested in is catastrophic failure.<p>What goes wrong when the money stops flowing? From what I've seen historically - the same things go wrong no matter what the place (see GFC effect at various companies back in '08).<p>How is Valve going to deal with the "always losing money" proposition?