N.R. Narayana Murthy, billionaire CEO of Infosys, an Indian outsourcing giant, used to be a socialist until an encounter with a Frenchwoman on a train didn’t turn out quite like Before Sunrise:
Back in the early 1970s, while traveling through Europe by train, Murthy was seized by police in a town near the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border. He had been chatting up a fellow passenger in French, and he believes that her boyfriend complained to a cop. Murthy was kept in a room in the train station for 72 hours and shipped out on a freight car. “There was no going back to communism after that,” he says.
Ah, nothing like the smell of a burned convert in the morning…
Yeah, I read about this in an United Airlines magazine amazingly almost 6-7 years ago, before InfoSys became huge. According to that article, he didn’t so much lose all his beliefs, but transformed them and put them into place in InfoSys. That’s why I believe it is the success that it is;