Have you tried the product he worked on?

Oculus has done extremely impressive hardware and software for VR and created the only viable mass market headset in the world and most importantly managed to ship consistently.

If he wanted to work on that there isn't really another company that he could have worked at. Valve doesn't take it seriously enough, and personally I believe they would have actually abandoned it already if Oculus hadn't been competing with them, they just lack the ambition and making hardware successful is infinitely more work than just running a videogame store.

No, I haven't and I won't as it has FB attached to it, which is a real pity, because it does indeed look very interesting.

But that's off the point. It's not the product I'm salty about.

Probably makes over a half a million a year and can do pretty much whatever he wants.

He easily makes way more than that. E5s can hit 500k with refreshers and stock appreciation. I would be shocked if he's making less than 2 million. Not that he even needs it.