Shai Agassi
I’d like to say that Thomas Friedman said it best when he said,
“What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You’d get Shai Agassi.”
I think I can improve.
Shai Agassi is a hero.
Bottom line. (Read Thomas’s book, The World is Flat, and you might think he is one as well)
The plain reality is that our civilization is experiencing harsh consequences directly resulting from our own innovations. The most highly debated and discusses innovation being automobiles and oil.
But, when you look at how oil has effected the socioeconomics of almost every culture worldwide, you would immediately understand how it is going to take a lot more then alternative energy to fix the oil problem. Because within the oil problem, there exist an entire set of other connected issue, from technology, to economy, and even religion. Being able to solve a problem, that addresses all connected problems, is extremely difficult. Doing this on an international scale is much harder, and executing the solution is near impossible.
Shai Agassi is on a mission to create
“global energy independence and freedom from oil”
Say that out loud. Think of all the many countless factors at play. He is trying to account for them all, and deliver a solution that could fix the ills brought upon by the industrial revolution.
Most importantly, he is committed, and determined to address, perhaps the hardest issue of our time. And for that he is a hero.