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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happens
I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.
buying innovation process whom
It's not about who is buying whom in the industry, it's about process innovation.
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.
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.
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.
architecture based build enterprise services
After the Enterprise Services Architecture, your applications world will be made from apps by us based on these services, apps from ISVs...and apps you build yourself.
customers great
Sometimes it was great for the customers, sometimes it wasn't great for the customers.
analyzing assume begin business integrate treadmill whatever
You need to begin by analyzing your business first. You have to assume you're on a treadmill and you have to integrate whatever comes your way.
stay
No one has said that we will only stay in that area.
core edge people process risk
People will take more risk with edge process than core processes.
continuous customer full information needed options picture strategic
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.
automatic created looking migrations saying words
They didn't want to say up front, 'You're going to have to migrate from your software,' because those words would have created a tremor. Now it's been a year, and what they're saying is, We're not going to take that code, we're just going to take some of the ideas. You can't do automatic migrations because it's rewritten. If I'm looking at a whole new implementation, why is it going to Oracle?
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.
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.