thank you. >> ben horowitz with andreessen horowitz in silicon valley. >> just another little stat form our dear friend at standard and poor's, back in 1997, jeff was worth $178 million. today, 15 years later, he controls over 88 million shares, worth $17 billion. pretty sweet. i do think he is -- >> good for you. >> ten minutes before the close right here. we've got a mark off of the lows for sure. >> did you notice a short time ago we showed you radio shack shares hitting a three-year low earlier today. what's behind that price plunge, straight ahead. >> and companies with exposure to facebook. are trading today. back in a moment on "closing bell." >>> mitt romney, born on march 12th, 1947, in detroit, michigan. romney is co-founder and former ceo of bain capital, and former president and ceo of the salt lake winter olympics organizing committee. romney was governor of massachusetts, and shared the republican governor's association. he was a candidate for president in 2008. romney took second place in the south carolina primary. watch cnbc's special coverage of the florida presidenti

plus, we'll get the inside scoop on the new $1.5 billion venture capital fund from co-founder ben horowitzrnings. can the kindle fire, fire up the company's numbers? see you at the top of the hour. >>> check this out, who says presidential town hall meetings are boring? >> why does the government continue to issue and extend h1b visas when there are tons of americans, just like my husband with no job? >> that was jennifer waddell of texas. she got a rather surprising answer from the president. >> we should get his resume and i'll forward it to some of these companies that are telling me they can't find enough engineers in this field. >> there you go. mr. president, the head hunter in chief, if you will. the president doing his part to get americans back to work one job at a time. jennifer waddell joining us from ft. worth. did you send the president your husband's resume? >> absolutely. we had it to him that very same day. google promised us that they would make sure that it got to the white house. and i have confirmed about an hour and a half ago that it is in the white house's hands. >>