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
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Organizations have started to create road maps that will enable their transition to a service-oriented architecture. As such, the SAP TechEd events create a community for success by allowing customers, partners and developers to share and accelerate knowledge surrounding SAP NetWeaver while they discover how existing processes and IT landscapes can be transformed into enablers of business innovation and change.
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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.
When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.
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No one has said that we will only stay in that area.
We won't do the kind of announcement Siebel has done.
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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.
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Our goal was to have a same-day deployment model. You sign up in the morning, and you're up and running by the afternoon.
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Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.
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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.
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When we do acquisitions, we do it from the edges of the solutions. It's hard to buy half a heart.
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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.