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For these reasons, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner does not appear alongside his former partners, Dietmar Hopp and Klaus Tschira.
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McDermott says he got a call from Hasso Plattner, who asked him to be the co-CEO of the company.
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Every year students at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design are challenged to find ways of improving gift giving for the giver.
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Highest ranked European tech exec: SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner.
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Others play along better: In a 2001 concert, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner got to play guitar on a blues song during a sound check with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
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Besides Branson (along with his wife, Joan), Pinchuk and Tan, the new Pledgers are: Andrew and Nicola Forrest (Australia), Patrice and Precious Motsepe (South Africa), Hasso Plattner (Germany), Vladimir Potanin (Russia), Azim Premji (India) and John Caudwell, Chris and Jamie Cooper-Hohn, Mo Ibrahim, David Sainsbury (all from the U.K).
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