# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shai-agassi
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:10:34.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shai-agassi"
name: "Shai Agassi"
slug: "shai-agassi"
description: "Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur known for his involvement in the electric vehicle industry. 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, after Agassi spent over $850 million while deploying fewer than 1000 cars."
tagline: "Founder and CEO of Better Place"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shai_Agassi2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1968-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.86048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi"
    title: "Shai Agassi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi"
    title: "Shai Agassi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi"
    title: "Shai Agassi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%A2%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "شای آغاسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi"
    title: "Shai Agassi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%92%D7%A1%D7%99"
    title: "שי אגסי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B7"
    title: "シャイ・アガシ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szaj_Agasi"
    title: "Szaj Agasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi"
    title: "Shai Agassi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi"
    title: "Shai Agassi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1235658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump