Thomas Siebel

$4.11B
as of 10/04/24

About Thomas Siebel

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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Business software

Residence

Woodside, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

11/22/52 (age 71)

Number of 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

Self-made

self-made

Thomas Siebel’s fortune is worth

69K

troy ounces of gold

63K

median U.S. household

41K

median U.S. income

0.082%

U.S. credit card volume

0.016%

GDP of the United States

0.012%

United States debt

Net worth history

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Did you know?

Siebel was attacked by an elephant on a 2009 safari trip in Serengeti; he barely escaped death and underwent 19 reconstructive surgeries.

Net worth over time

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Financial assets

NYSE | AI-US

C3.ai

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C3.ai

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C3.ai

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C3.ai

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C3.ai

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C3.ai

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C3.ai

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C3.ai

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C3.ai

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