Great Moments in Corporate Speak

By Paul Kedrosky · October 29, 2007 · ·

Great moments in corporate speak:

"I’ve never seen someone as skilled as Shai at selling abstract concepts."

          — Nimish Mehta, a former senior vice president at SAP, in today’s WSJ , on another former SAP veep, Shai Agassi, who has raised $200m for a hopelessly uneconomic electric car startup thingie

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Comments

  1. bjk says:
    October 29, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    Shai sold SAP a going nowhere portal company for $400 million, or 20x sales. I’d say that’s pretty good salesmanship.