Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place, which had developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. The company went bankrupt in 2013, having spent over $850 million while deploying less than 1000 cars...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 April 1968
CountryIsrael
allow backbone blocks building others rather scale top
This isn't about assembling Lego blocks but rather about building a backbone that can scale and that can allow others to build on top of it.
core edge people process risk
People will take more risk with edge process than core processes.
company developed enterprise fail gave ideas market model offered people protect puts services solution
If a company puts in a solution in the market that makes other people fail, then we all fail as a community. This will be a model for enterprise services and how new ideas are proposed, developed and offered into in the market. It's an IP model to protect what you want to protect and one to protect everyone in the community, so you can't come after someone just because you gave them an idea for an enterprise service interface.
break change climate components east knew middle passions peace solely solve technology understand
My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions.
bridge company divide
This will bridge the divide between on-demand and on-premise in that, over time, when a company grows, it can take its on-demand CRM on premise.
copying desktop great innovative linux talk
We all talk about how great Linux is, ... But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple.
ability employees grow looking number potential users versus
We have the potential ability to grow fourfold by looking at the number of employees in a corporation versus the number of users that are professional users of SAP.
asking continuous customers full needed options picture planning strategic
We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.
boys past two
Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.
breathe economy multiple
I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.
dream reality easier
When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.
electric-vehicles government people
The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.
alignment available blueprint bring building community customers delivery ecosystem enabling enterprise expect foundation happening innovative life mutual partner platform process provider sap services shift solution solve thousands timely together wave win
With this new wave of partner alignment around enterprise services, we expect to bring thousands of enterprise services to life for our mutual customers through community collaboration, ... Customers win when the ecosystem collaborates on a timely delivery of innovative technologies that solve deployment and integration issues. This architectural shift is happening now, and SAP is the only solution provider to bring together an enterprise-scale blueprint with ESA, an enabling platform in SAP NetWeaver, an available repository of more than 500 enterprise services, and now with Enterprise Services Community Process, a foundation of a collaborative process for building enterprise services.
buy edges half hard heart
When we do acquisitions, we do it from the edges of the solutions. It's hard to buy half a heart.