Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Tom Siebel, First Virtual Group - Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace

Audio Podcast: Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace

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Tom Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems and current CEO of First Virtual Group, recaps a history of the information technology boom, and pronounces it a nearly stagnant sector. He focuses on the burgeoning interests in energy, healthcare, food and water, and other market possibilities to meet the needs of an expanding, aging, and more affluent global population.

Tom Siebel Biography

Tom Siebel is Chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with interests in commercial real estate, agribusiness, global investment management, and philanthropy.

Siebel was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Siebel Systems, which merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006. Founded in 1993, Siebel Systems became a global leader in application software with more than 8,000 employees in 32 countries, over 4,500 corporate customers, and annual revenue in excess of $2 billion.

Prior to Siebel Systems, Siebel served as CEO of Gain Technology and held various management positions at Oracle.

He is a frequent industry spokesman and the author of three books, including Taking Care of eBusiness and Cyber Rules, published by Doubleday, and Virtual Selling, published by the Free Press.

Siebel is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a BA in history, an MBA...

First Virtual Group

Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture

2009-02-11

1h 0min 5sec

ID: 2110

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