- Lars Dalgaard is Danish, flamboyant, outspoken and heading up a disruptive technology revolution in the heart of Silicon Valley with lessons to be learned for start-ups everywhere.
Lars Dalgaard is Danish, flamboyant, outspoken and heading up a disruptive technology revolution in the heart of Silicon Valley with lessons to be learned for start-ups everywhere. Stuart Lauchlan reports from San Francisco.
Lars Dalgaard isn't your typical Silicon Valley CEO. For a start, he's a 6ft 4 inch Dane who's managed to pull off the trick that's eluded so many European technology entrepreneurs – he's founded, grown and runs one of the fastest growing firms in the technology market, Cloud Computing business application provider SuccessFactors.
He's also phenomenally outspoken - with some 'colourful' terminology - and clearly sees nothing wrong with keynoting at a high profile Valley venture capital and investor conference only to tell his audience of start-ups and entrepreneurs that they're wasting valuable time turning up in the first place!
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