The Transition From Getting a Door Close to Getting Another One Open

In 1989 when he finished his master's, not as well developed in the field of materials and chemical engineering type of a thing. People would not even give you an interview because you didn't check the right box of having the work authorization. And then I consider going back to India where people valued me more highly. But I'm not one to retreat. So I took his advice and continued on. We came up with this really cool technology that became the basis for a couple of companies which wanted to license us. They wanted to license that technology and my first job and I moved to Boston area.