Tom Siebel definitely seems like an interesting Silicon Valley character: - Annoying fake smile in all videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXe0XSaBe4) - Names companies as C3.{buzzword} - buzzword used to be IoT and now AI - Prefers to hire "extroverts who aren’t ‘wrestling all the time with work-life balance’" (https://businesshala.com/tom-siebel-ceo-of-6-7-billion-c3-ai-says-he-prefers-to-hire-extroverts-who-arent-wrestling-all-the-time-with-work-life-balance-as-its-employees-return-to-the-office-full-time/) - definitely seems very inclusive and forward thinker - Keeps saying world's 5th biggest company (Shell lol) is their customer (doesn't know revenue vs. market cap vs. profit?) - Keeps saying US Air Force is one of the world's biggest companies and proud that it is his customer - Tons of contributions to GOP: https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/thomas-siebel.asp?cycle=16 (no surprise that C3.AI customers are military or oil industries) - Fought the buy the $AI ticker to pump his stock for IPO - His company has less than $200M annual revenue, slow growth rate (<20%), poor (negative) profit margins, and jokingly $5B market cap. Each FAANG should worth >$10T with those ratios. Thoughts?
Lost 8k investing in it after IPO. Err my biggest regret.
Overhyped
Will he give all that money to a Democrat?
Lmao he says so much stuff against Gavin Newsom internally I’ve heard
I know a couple of people who worked at C3 and left very quickly. Both said it was because of Tom and his aggressive leadership style. They were reporting one layer away from him.
He’s a marketing guy first and foremost; surrounded by yes men
hype artist
It sounds like he wants to hire a bunch of jocks much like himself