Indra Nooyi

Growing up in an environment where India had just come out of 350 years of British rule, you sit there going, I have to pull myself up.

I think the biggest lesson I took away was, he said, what I was focused on was micro-understanding.

Because if you don't understand the business down to where the rubber meets the road, you can make decisions at the top which are not implementable.

The business was a multi, multi-billion dollar business.

And remember, if you don't earn your place, the people below you are waiting to push you out.

So people don't realize that as you get more senior in an organization, it's up or out.

That is the story.

Sometimes I tell him, why did you rush this proposal?

I wanted to be dated and wooed and dined and wine.

And he said, I didn't propose to you, you proposed to me.

So I said, why did you accept if I proposed to you?

He says, I don't know.

It was just destined to be that way.

And I think over summer, even though we didn't spend much time together one on one, there must have been some spark.

And he's just a very good guy, to be honest.

And I guess he thought I was a pretty good person, too.

And so it was just a meeting of the minds, value system, families, every which way.

And I said yes without being wined and dined.

And he said yes without dating me and getting to know me.

And the rest is history.