... and how this came into being?

So I'll, I'll go back maybe all the way back.

I was born in a very small town called Aligarh, near New Delhi, and then went to AMU for a bachelor's, went to IIT Kanpur for a master's.

Then I went to...

That was here about 30 years back in, in Bangalore working for SAS, uh, Silicon Automation Systems, now called Sasken.

It's a public company now.

Uh, and then I went to Purdue University from India to Indiana for a PhD, and landed in the Valley in Jan of 2000.

Not hard to imagine.