Photo Gallery 'You Really Have to Take Your Hat Off to the Americans'
Hasso Plattner is one of the co-founders of German business software giant SAP, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. In a SPIEGEL interview, he explains what German entrepreneurs could learn from Americans and shares his memories of Apple's Steve Jobs.
SAP headquarters in Walldorf near Heidelberg. "We take too little pleasure in success," Plattner told SPIEGEL. "In the US, people have a totally different attitude. German entrepreneurs simply don't start thinking globally early enough."
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (September 2011 photo). "You really have to take your hat off to the Americans -- the way they reinvent themselves again and again, especially in the high-tech sector," Plattner said.
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