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
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.
customers great
Sometimes it was great for the customers, sometimes it wasn't great for the customers.
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.
happens
I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.
core edge people process risk
People will take more risk with edge process than core processes.
stay
No one has said that we will only stay in that area.
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.
When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.
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.
clarify meets needs plans product ready small
We will come out with a product when we come up with a product that meets the needs of small businesses. We have plans that will be clarified when we are ready to clarify them.
buzz great looks marc noise planet trying
It looks great on PowerPoint, but on planet Earth, it won't fly. Salesforce.com is a CRM company. Marc is trying to make noise and buzz about something bigger, but that's all it is.
model money successful systematic understand
It will be a systematic process. The (community partners) have to be successful for this whole model to work. If you don't make money in this process, we're not successful. We know that and we understand that.
We won't do the kind of announcement Siebel has done.