David i dont consider myself as a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the c. E. O. Of pepsico for more than 10 years. Did you think when were a young girl in india you would grow up to be the head of a Large Company like pepsi . Indra it is a dream come true. I pinch myself every day to say, is this happening to me. To trace my roots and go back to where i grew up and where i am, the two points would never connect, and to be in the United States running such a Large Company, it is almost an incredulous thing that has happened to me. David lets go back to india for a moment. You grew up in a very close family and when you were very young, your mother at the Kitchen Table would say, pretend you are Prime Minister of india, or something. What was the drill she was tryin
4 who is steven cohen . He built up an a enormous personal for tune on the basis of his incredible skill for trading. So he had a strong instinth for the stock market. He would sit down and look at the way stocks were trading and believed to have an incredible sense of how to ride the waves in the market and make money. He has this very compelling almost rags to riches story. He grew up very middle class and long island. His family has less money than a lot of others around him. He felt a sort of hunger to become rich. He started playing poker in high school. Very quickly built up a for tune. He has a mansion in connecticut, helicopter rides, works of art. He became an object of extreme envy. Sac. His initials. E embodied the firm. Theres a moment you say in your book he wouldnt talk to you. Tell us about that. I had spent several years reporting this book. I went about doing that the i had a lot of Court Documents interviews with people and i tried to convince him to sit with me. Of c
4 who is steven cohen . He built up an a enormous personal for tune on the basis of his incredible skill for trading. So he had a strong instinth for the stock market. He would sit down and look at the way stocks were trading and believed to have an incredible sense of how to ride the waves in the market and make money. He has this very compelling almost rags to riches story. He grew up very middle class and long island. His family has less money than a lot of others around him. He felt a sort of hunger to become rich. He started playing poker in high school. Very quickly built up a for tune. He has a mansion in connecticut, helicopter rides, works of art. He became an object of extreme envy. Sac. His initials. E embodied the firm. Theres a moment you say in your book he wouldnt talk to you. Tell us about that. I had spent several years reporting this book. I went about doing that the i had a lot of Court Documents interviews with people and i tried to convince him to sit with me. Of c
4 who is steven cohen . He built up an a enormous personal for tune on the basis of his incredible skill for trading. So he had a strong instinth for the stock market. He would sit down and look at the way stocks were trading and believed to have an incredible sense of how to ride the waves in the market and make money. He has this very compelling almost rags to riches story. He grew up very middle class and long island. His family has less money than a lot of others around him. He felt a sort of hunger to become rich. He started playing poker in high school. Very quickly built up a for tune. He has a mansion in connecticut, helicopter rides, works of art. He became an object of extreme envy. Sac. His initials. E embodied the firm. Theres a moment you say in your book he wouldnt talk to you. Tell us about that. I had spent several years reporting this book. I went about doing that the i had a lot of Court Documents interviews with people and i tried to convince him to sit with me. Of c
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. This is through the decades. Here on through the decades we take a long view of history. Examining how events of a single day continue to impact our world for years to come, often in ways that are hard to see in the moment. Few eras have had the reach or see in the moment. Few eras have had the reach or the influence that the cold exacted. This wasnt some remote Foreign Policy relegated to sound bites on the evening news. As well see in the next hour, it was connective tissue that impacted our politics, pop culture and personalities all woven through the decades. But we begin with, the 1959 debate when politicians from the soviet union and the u. S. Went toe to toe on telelvision. The summer of that year, vice moscow as part of a cultural exchange. That trip would earn a place in history thanks to an impromptu debate with the soviet premier that would forever be known as the kitchen debate. Some of the twentieth centurys most extraord