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Thomas Siebel

Net worth $4.0B

Business software · United States

Born
Nov 22, 1952
Age
73
Source
Business software
Residence
Woodside, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
4
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Master of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Master of Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Tom Siebel built software firm Siebel Systems and sold it to Oracle in 2006 for $5.8 billion in cash and stock.
  • A former salesman at Oracle, he left in 1990 to launch Siebel Systems.
  • In 2009, he created C3.ai, an enterprise AI firm he took public in 2020 at a near $10 billion valuation.
  • C3.ai started as a clean energy firm. It was briefly named C3IoT in 2016 to chase the internet of things market.
  • He has given more than $150 million to his alma mater, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, including a 2024 gift to build the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science.
  • Siebel was attacked by an elephant on a 2009 safari trip in Serengeti; he barely escaped death and underwent 19 reconstructive surgeries.
  • Siebel owns a 90,000-acre ranch in Wolf Creek, Montana where he raises over 1,000 cattle and produces 500,000 pounds of beef annually.

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