Indra Nooyi

So you had irons with hot coal inside them.

You have spray starch here.

When I was in a Catholic school, the uniform had to be starched and you had to show up looking very crisp.

Here you just buy spray starch and you spray it and you iron it on.

There you had to make your own starch at home.

And sometimes it would be clumps that would land on the uniform because you didn't really...

cook out the clumps and the starch that you made.

And so we spent a lot of time doing things that people here didn't have to think about.

You just went to the store and bought it, or you had electricity, you had water.

So you took all that for granted.

We had to spend a lot of time on those so-called unnecessary survival tasks growing up.

So you come here and you watch everybody here going, wow, they're so brilliant.

They think differently.

They break boundaries.

They're irreverent, but they're reverent also in their own ways.

How does one become like that?

You know, I was more in awe of them rather than they don't work so hard.

It's just that the working hard part was on stuff that was made easy in the United States.

The price of development.

No question about it.