Scoobes on 04 October 2013
Valve would have to be up there; new hardware; Steam as a platform; the innovations in Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal, willing to give community developers a chance to join the ranks etc.
That Game Company is a good shout as all of their games were bizarre and it must have been quite a strange thing to pitch.
Most Indie developers (e.g. Subset games, Frictional games, Introversion software, Paradox Interactive) should probably be on here too. That seems to be where most of the risks are taken.
Team Ico as well... not having a product for 8 years is risky, right? 
