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In 2020, Newell and the Valve employee Yahn Bernier created a car racing team, the Heart of Racing,
The Heart of Racing was not created in 2020 by Gabe Newell and Yahn Bernier. Official team history traces it back to a 1997 fundraising campaign, and motorsport coverage shows the team had already raced in IMSA from 2014 to 2016 before returning in 2020.
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This sentence gets the team's origin wrong.
Official history from Team Seattle/ProFormance says The Heart of Racing began in 1997, when Don Kitch Jr. founded Team Seattle's "Heart of Racing" campaign as a fundraiser for Seattle Children's Hospital. ProFormance also says Gabe Newell came on board later, after the effort already existed.
Independent motorsport coverage further shows the team was already active before 2020. DailySportsCar reported in December 2019 that the 2020 Aston Martin program was the return of Heart of Racing to IMSA competition, and noted that the team had last competed there with a Porsche GTD entry from 2014 to 2016.
So the 2020 effort was a revival/continuation of an existing team and charity program, not the moment Newell and Yahn Bernier "created" The Heart of Racing.
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- Don Kitch Jr. - ProFormance Racing School
In 1997 Don founded Team Seattle, “The Heart of Racing”, a campaign centering on the IMSA WeatherTech Series of Sportscar Racing as a fundraiser for Seattle Children’s Hospital.
- A Steady Hand at the Wheel — Donna Porada-Kitch - ProFormance Racing School
Eventually Team Seattle went national, as Valve entrepreneur and racing enthusiast Gabe Newell came on board. Team Seattle was re-christened The Heart of Racing...
- Heart Of Racing IMSA Return Confirmed With Aston Martin
The official confirmation of the return of Heart of Racing to IMSA competition has come this morning... Heart of racing were last seen in IMSA competition with a Porsche GTD entry from 2014-16 managed by Alex Job Racing.
the wealthiest person in the video games industry
This is overstated. Forbes lists Gabe Newell at about $11 billion, but also lists NetEase founder William Ding—whose wealth comes from online games—at roughly $39 billion, making Newell clearly not the wealthiest person in the video game business.
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This claim conflicts with Forbes' own billionaire data.
Forbes' profile for Gabe Newell gives him a real-time net worth of $11 billion and identifies his source of wealth as video games.
But Forbes' profile for William Ding, founder and CEO of NetEase, says he runs "one of the world's largest online games companies", lists his source of wealth as online games, and gives him a real-time net worth of $39.3 billion. That is far above Newell's fortune.
Because Ding's wealth is explicitly tied to online games, calling Newell "the wealthiest person in the video games industry" is incorrect.
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- Gabe Newell - Forbes
PROFILE Gabe Newell ... $11B Real Time Net Worth ... Source of Wealth Video games, Self Made.
- William Ding - Forbes
William Ding is the founder and CEO of NetEase, one of the world's largest online games companies... PROFILE William Ding $39.3B ... Source of Wealth Online games, Self Made.