Let me tell you a little bit about my personal journey to Silicon（[化学] 硅） Valley from India 22 years ago. Growing up in India, like many of you, I got my first telephone when I was 12. In my case, it turned out to be a rotary（旋转的） phone, so it wasn't that（那么〔大、多等〕〔尤指通过手势比画来表示大小、数量等〕） great for selfies, but I still love to call my friends, play with it, and sometimes take it apart（相隔）. That telephone cemented（粘结） my fascination（魔力） with technology. I had a deep desire（愿望） to be part of this exchange（交换） of ideas. I remember, in my parents' house in Chennai, reading about the invention of the transistor（ 晶体管） at Bell（钟） Labs.

  Of course, that initial（最初的） invention helped found what became known as Silicon（[化学] 硅） Valley, and out of that came companies like Fat Child Semiconductor（[电子][物] 半导体） and Intel and all the computers and software（ 软件） that we all use today. You can draw a direct line from that invention to the technology that powers（激励） your Twitter feed（饲料） or your WeChat messages today. I still vividly remember as a teenager, jumping onto a crowded train at Chennai and traveling for 24 hours to attend my school at IIT Kirtpur.