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This reminded me greatly of yesterday's article on Shai Agassi and the failure of Better Place [0].

The real reason is because Shai Agassi, a 0.001 percentile guy, was beaten by Elon Musk, a 0.0000001 percentile guy.

My first thought, reading that, was of Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, the battery-swap electric car company.

This is exactly what Shai Agassi tried doing with Better Place [1].

Mitch Kapor and Shai Agassi were pretty interesting as well.

I have an exam in this subject tomorrow, I just watched this really good explanation of the pumping lemma by Shai Simonson yesterday.

And, of course, if you're Shai Agassi, you can raise a ton of money for Better Place, even though you have no experience in battery tech or distribution, because you're Shai Agassi.

I heard Shai Agassi of Better Place speak once.

The trajectory of Better Place and the character of the founder Shai Agassi is almost analogous with another recent super failure of a promising Brazilian oil venture OGX Petróleo e Gás and its founder Eike Batista [1].

From the article, 'Well, it looks like Michael may have gotten his wish as Adobe has hired co-inventor Shai Avidan to their team.' Unfortunately, that makes it seem like this promising new technology will be lost to a proprietary implementation.

For mathematical foundations of ML, I would recommend the book "Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms" by Shai Shalev-Shwartz.

Shai Agassi is a great visionary, but perhaps Better Place bit off more than it could chew.

Shai's paper would be much less interesting if he just looked at many patents companies did pre and post IPO.

Shai Agassi, the founder and former CEO of Better Place, also touted the importance of the rate of battery innovation during his talk at the Cleantech Investor Summit.