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Valve is founded as an L.L.C. in Kirkland, WA by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, instrumental minds behind nearly three generations of the Windows operating system. Their first order of business is to acquire the licensing rights to the original Quake engine from id Software, which they immediately fell in love with. This soon becomes the heavily modified Goldsrc engine with roughly 70% of the original code being rewritten.