I was 16 in India when I heard about, in fact, red in a two-year-old magazine that I used

to rent once they were old, they came to India and you could rent them for the weekend.

That indigrow, a Hungarian immigrant had come to Silicon Valley and started intel.

So that became a dream for me if that immigrant can do it, why can't I?

But didn't you start a soy milk company in Delhi?

I did try and start a soy milk company, I never got it started.

There was never any funding available.

There wasn't an entrepreneurial culture there.

And I still remember vividly, I called the phone company and they said seven years to get

a phone line.

I said, I'm coming to Silicon Valley.

This Vinod Kostla, he did come to Silicon Valley and in 1982 he co-founded the technology firm's

Sun Microsystems.

Today he runs one of the biggest venture capital firms in the US and therefore one of the

biggest VC firms in the world.

It's called Kostla Ventures.

Since 2004 it has invested in nearly 1000 startup companies.

Kostla often invests in little more than an idea.

Pat Brown was a professor at Stanford and he came to us and said, I want to change animal

husbandry on the planet.

That was his entire pitch.

Pat Brown was a very well regarded biomedical researcher.

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