Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Founder and executive chairperson of Biocon
I am very impatient, impulsive, proactive and often act in haste.
Identity & self
How would you describe yourself in three words?
128 answers answered between 2006 and 2026 one of 25 in The Q&A
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Tom Kerridge
Chef and restaurateur
I’m a very happy, fat, bald bloke who sounds like a pirate.
Henry R. Kravis
Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
it’s that grit, that determination, that fortitude, that gets you through what you set out to do.
Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
My oldest friend, in three words, would say "My friend Derek." How's that for a cop-out answer?
Nice, direct, loyal.
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@aliabbasi
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Positive, Confident, Easy Going