On his thirtieth birthday, some of his former students, by then numbering in the hundreds, gave a dinner party at BigTime Inn, the poshest restaurant in Silicon Valley. After dinner, their speeches praised him. And they complained. The speakers, all from South Asia and China originally, bitterly commiserated that time and again, the corporations they worked for ignored them for promotions to managerial positions. Positions for which they had patiently striven for years and clearly merited.
Silicon Valley is the new Pacific Railroad.
They asked their former mentor for advice. Sucha Singh rose to speak. Second, you should not reveal your solution till you have the remaining 50 percent in hand. Third, you should be constantly psyched up to file lawsuits against the defaulting corporations. Now, if you don't have the spirit and the stomach for this hawk-eyed lookout and adversarial outlook, you should be ready to go back home and try another lifestyle.