Valve software

Who: Valve is an influential video game company that made the popular franchises Half-life, its sequel and episodes, Portal and Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.

Where: In Seattle after Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington broke away from Microsoft to create the company. Hiring computer geniuses that were creating mods for video games better than the companies.

When: Back in the nineties when computer games were developing and were still seen as new technology to now as a huge company with interaction with their fans.