At his first executive board meeting at SAP, a company that had grown dominant by moving slowly and conservatively, Agassi [whose company had just been acquired for $400M) suggested nearly a dozen heretical ideas.
He said SAP should give away its hardware and software for free—just charge for IT support
He said SAP should make its database business open source to undermine Oracle. The other board members laughed: The new kid was a cutup! But they stopped when SAP cofounder Hasso Plattner looked around the table and said,
“He’s the only guy making sense here”
As insanely awesome as that his, check out this guys newest idea…headline below…
(I don’t know all the details, but it sounds like a plan ;-)
Driven: Shai Agassi’s Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road
