Gabe Newell is coming off an epic week. His company Valve, which operates the popular Steam platform for buying and playing PC games, announced three new pieces of hardware last Wednesday, including a compact gaming PC, a controller, and a VR headset. And that same day, Newell also finally received his long-awaited $500 million superyacht, called Leviathan.
Leviathan was built by Oceanco, a Dutch shipyard Newell purchased in August for an undisclosed sum after working closely with the company on building and designing his yacht.
Newell, Valve’s 62-year-old cofounder and president whose net worth is around $11 billion, has a penchant for the ocean: In a recent interview with a YouTuber who has fewer than 2,000 subscribers, he said he loves to “get up, work, [and] go scuba diving.” In addition, he already owns a fewsuperyachts and a small fleet of sea-faring vehicles through his marine research organization, Inkfish.
One of Newell’s research vessels, the Limiting Factor, holds records for the deepest crewed dives in all five of the world’s oceans. He’s also currently building another 100-meter research vessel estimated to cost around $300 million.
Inside Leviathan
