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Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high

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Marc Andreessen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 9
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