As India Rises, Silicon Valley Falls Behind
So says the Bay Area Council, which is talking up a 3,000-page report documenting the ever shifting relationship between India and the San Francisco Bay Area -- home to the second-largest population of Indians in the U.S. after New Jersey-New York. Indian technologists who came to work in Silicon Valley in the 1980s would often stay on and sometimes start companies. Vinod Khosla, for example, not only co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 but also became one of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists. By 1999, nearly a quarter of Silicon Valley's engineers were Indian, according to AnnaLee Saxenian at U.C. Berkeley. and around 6% of valley companies had Indian CEOs. Things changed after 9/11, when the tech bubble collapsed and restrictions on visas tightened, and Indians who came to work in Silicon Valley more often returned home. Now, despite the very close ties between the two regions --
