has been getting calls from google, facebook, microsoft, oracle. and guess what, every time he told them he wasn't interested. we should all be so lucky. this is a guy who is so smart, so talented, that he is deciding to take some venture capital money that he thinks he's going to get, and start his own company. that's the kind of environment that we're dealing with in silicon valley. there's so much money, and there's so many part people around here they feel like they can, you know, do it their own way and try to make some money at the same time. >> good for him. what kind of skills are needed. >> reporter: you know, the skills that are needed are very specialized, as we said. if you have a computer science background and you have computer programming skills, you can really do well. and i want you to listen now to a guy from a start-up called swear. this is the chief operating officer for swear, and he talked about really what it takes to get hired. and he talked about the competitiveness that we're seeing across the situation here in silicon valley. take a look at this.