V I V E K R A N A D I V ÉSACRAMENTO K INGS OWNER S INCE 2013 Vivek Ranadivé often recalls the time he “foolishly” agreed to coach his daughter’s middle-school basketball team. Having never even touched a basketball, his first impulse was to say no. But not wanting to let his daughter down, he said yes, quickly learned the intricacies of the game and how to use them to his advantage, and coached her team to the finals of the state championship. His team might have been smaller and less athletic than the other teams, but he taught them to play harder than anyone else on the court and to never, ever give up.

In his rookie season with the Kings, he brought on a fresh and hungry basketball operations staff that believed in his core principles of how to build a championship-level team. He was previously the co-owner and vice chairman of the Golden State Warriors. Additionally, Ranadivé’s dream of taking basketball to his home country of India is well under way. Ranadivé has led the advancement and use of real-time technology in business operations and decision-making, earning him the nickname “Mr. Real Time” in technology circles.

In 1986, Ranadivé founded Teknekron Software Systems, which focused on creating the stock-trading floor of the future. Teknekron went on to automate Wall Street, and its technology became the engine for most of the world’s capital markets. In 1997, he founded his present company, TIBCO Software Inc., with the mission of bringing real-time computing into the mainstream. Today TIBCO technology helps more than 4,000 customers thrive by powering everything from the web to airlines, utilities, communications providers, manufacturers and governments. With nearly a billion-dollar revenue run rate, TIBCO is one of the fastest-growing software companies in its peer group.

Ranadivé has authored three books that are New York Times best-sellers and are widely read in business and academia. His most recent book is The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future – Just Enough. He also authored The Power to Predict and The Power of Now.

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T E S L A M O T O R S was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline-powered cars. With instant torque, incredible power and zero emissions, Tesla’s products would be cars without compromise. Each new generation would be increasingly affordable, helping the company work towards its mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable transport.

Tesla’s engineers first designed a powertrain for a sports car built around an AC induction motor, patented in 1888 by Nikola Tesla, the inventor who inspired the company’s name. The resulting Tesla Roadster was launched in 2008. Accelerating from 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds and achieving a range of 245 miles per charge of its lithium ion battery, the Roadster set a new standard for electric mobility. Tesla would sell more than 2,400 Roadsters, now on the road in more than 30 countries.

Now with more than 50,000 vehicles on the road worldwide, Tesla is preparing to launch Model X, a crossover vehicle that enters volume production in 2015. Featuring exhilarating acceleration, falcon wing doors and room for three rows of seating, Model X defies categorization.

Tesla’s vehicles are produced at its factory in Fremont, California. The Tesla factory has returned thousands of jobs to the area and is capable of producing 1,000 cars a week.

N I K O L A T E S L AB O R N July 10, 1856 in Croatia

I N V E N T E D The building blocks for radio, radar, wireless networks and x-ray when most of the world was still lit by candle power

B E S T K N O W N F O R AC Induction Motor (labeled as one of the 10 greatest discoveries of all time)

F U N F A C T S Spoke over 8 different languages Could memorize entire books and recite them at will Could visualize devices entirely in his head and then build them without ever writing anything down

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T E S L A T O U RWe will be visiting Tesla’s 5.3 million square foot Fremont factory. Follow the journey of the Model S as thousands of passionate and talented Tesla employees use Silicon Valley innovation to disrupt the traditional auto industry. Watch as coils and ingots of aluminum, miles of copper wire and millions of plastic pellets are transformed into a symbol of transportation’s future. Your tour will include a visit to the stamping center where they take large rolls of aluminum and use massive house-sized machines to create the three-dimensional objects that will become the Model S. Then we’ll visit the body center where those same parts are put together by hundreds of advanced robots to make the uni-body chassis of the Model S.

Lastly, we’ll visit the general assembly area where the car collects thousands of parts and becomes the revolutionary Tesla Model S that you see on the road.

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