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1 Jul 2021
NEW @BW caper about the Microsoft engineer who stole 152,000 Xbox gift cards was living off the proceeds in a $1.6 million home with plans to buy a ski chalet, yacht, and seaplane
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Jun 1
Yacht diss aside, it's worth remembering that the most profitable US tech company on a per-employee basis isn’t Apple or Google or even Nvidia.
Ahead of them is Valve. By some estimates, Valve employees each generate ~6x the annual profits of Apple/Google and ~1.5x Nvidia (!!)
May 28
Everyone’s being too harsh here. There has been a significant rise in the cost of components that Steam customer spending ultimately funds, and economic trends have created severe disruptions in the component parts supply chain for megayachts.
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He is clearly mocking the management decision of Valve about the price increase of the Steam Deck to gain engagement, while Epic Games under his leadership has faced repeated mismanagements, major layoffs of almost 830 staff in 2023 and over 1000 more in March 2026.
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Steam only keeps a slice of those store transactions, but assuming Valve has kept small at around 350 employees, based on data from PrivCo, the $$$ math for 2025 breaks down to:
- Nearly $15 million in annual revenue per employee
- $4.3 million in annual net income per employee
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Austin Carr retweeted
New -- Valve: anticorporate hero or big tech, but small?
Gamers know Valve as a freewheeling enterprise, but previously unreported docs show controversial business practices that, critics say, restrict both gamers and game-makers. Feature w/ @AustinCarr: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Game developers are suing Valve for abusing the power its Steam store has over the PC games market, in litigation with echoes of antitrust suits against Apple and Google bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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May 28
Interesting. Boston is a making a play to lure AI tech talent that doesn't want to pay California taxes bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Why are Mac minis suddenly hard to find? A boom in Claude-powered AI agents has turned Apple’s smallest desktop into essential hardware bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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new book from @MattCampbell coming this summer.
the evil Indiana Jones behind the Khmer artifacts that fill the world's museums. i've read it and it kicks ass.
get your pre-orders in, book him on your podcasts, put him in your celebrity book club, etc
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Austin Carr retweeted
Mar 26
The strange story of how professors from MIT, Rice and UC Irvine got tangled up in a charismatic tech CEO’s alleged Ponzi scheme bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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For anxious crypto investors, a growing number of firms and third parties are selling peace of mind through supplementary criminal insurance or warranties. But the fine print suggests customers have far less coverage than they think bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Mar 26
New @BW feature on the professors from MIT, Rice & UC Irvine who got caught up in what the SEC called an "IP-rich" Ponzi scheme.
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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How a crew of crypto-focused hackers moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (@austincarr / Bloomberg)
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Austin Carr retweeted
Jan 2
Very well researched article by @AustinCarr that covers the tactics employed by an organized crypto crime ring that started off with SIM swaps and progressed to wrench attacks.
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Rising prices and the irreversible nature of crypto transactions have led to a surge of brutal home invasions and kidnappings. bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
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Austin Carr retweeted
30 Nov 2025
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/05…
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Austin Carr retweeted
15 Nov 2025
I don't get it. Any other journalist who did something like this would be blackballed. But she gets a new job at Vanity Fair and a photo spread in the NYT.
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Austin Carr retweeted
13 Nov 2025
my book EMPIRE OF ORGASM!!! available for preorder now!! out next tuesday!!
12 Nov 2025
reading this excerpt from @ellenhuet's wonderful book, you really can't help but feel like the world went crazy in 2011 or so, and the origin of that crazy was san francisco. thrilling, impeccable reporting and storytelling. READ IT!! bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces (@austincarr / Bloomberg)
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