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
dream reality easier
When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.
breathe economy multiple
I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.
boys past two
Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.
people fear-of-failure sometimes
Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.
country israel land
I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.
jobs missions
Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.
car computer grids
You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.
buying innovation process whom
It's not about who is buying whom in the industry, it's about process innovation.
believe flexible platform single solutions top unified
We believe that you need a single unified platform on top of which you can make as many flexible solutions as you want.
buy company ecosystem
You don't need to go out and buy every company out there. You need an ecosystem for co-innovation.
When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.