thanks a TON for this recommendation it was really eye-opening listening to his presentation and the detailed history, as well as the cat-and-mouse game escapades. Very well put-together presentation and yeah, really makes me reflect on the specialness of Silicon Valley and those relationships.
I had an uncle, an electrical engineer, who went there for higher studies, to stanford, got his PhD (typical common route for many talented Indians, at least up to MS, doctorate is less common), was mentioned in who's who in electrical engineering, worked there, married an American woman, and became a US citizen, and a hardware entrepreneur, in Sunnyvale, California, but I didn't hear about this from him, i just read it on the net.