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That's an interesting thought. It's certainly possible. We see ourselves as a market correction -- engineers are in tremendous demand, but the market hasn't fully adjusted yet. Salaries haven't shifted dramatically and it's still a pain to find a new job, even for great engineers.

My bet is that the scale will continue to shift in engineers' favor until we hit an equilibrium.

Yep, totally. And something like this also helps the other side.

Case in point: have a couple friends who quit their high-paying engineering positions, and ended up consulting for companies as the first technical interviewer a candidate meets. Companies will pay a lot just to have that first filter. Interviewing is so time consuming!

I think PG is already the agent that hacker-preneurs want representing them. His role reminds me a lot of Scott Boras in baseball.

Hah, that would be awesome. I would love an agent.

"many sports agents are former players"???

In some sports I can see this...