In Atlanta, loyalty often runs deep—particularly to the city’s two hometown giants: Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines.
So it might come as a surprise that Ed Bastian, who has spent nearly a decade leading Delta, credits an Atlanta rival—PepsiCo—for making him the executive he is today. On the latest episode of Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Bastian opened up about how the food and beverage conglomerate didn’t just shape his own rise to the C-suite, but has quietly done the same for a generation of business leaders.
