Tom Siebel (First Virtual Group) - Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2009

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You are listening to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:09.0	You can find podcasts and video clips of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It is my sincere pleasure today to introduce Tom Siebel, who is the chairman of First Virtual
0:23.6	Group, a diversified holding company with interest in commercial real estate, agribusiness,
0:29.6	global investment management, and philanthropy. Tom was the founder, chairman, and chief executive
0:34.6	officer at Siebel Systems, which merged with Oracle in January 2006.
0:40.2	Prior to being at Siebel, Tom served as the CEO of Game Technology and also had several
0:45.7	leadership positions at Oracle before that. He is the author of three books. One of them is
0:51.9	taking care of e-business. Next is cyber rules and virtual selling.
0:56.0	And I think you'll be interested to know he has three degrees from the University of Illinois
1:00.0	in history, an MBA, and a PhD in engineering. So without further ado, Tom Siebel.
1:07.0	Thank you so much.
1:08.0	Afternoon, everybody. Sebel. Thank you so much.
1:13.8	Afternoon, everybody.
1:17.9	Are there any, I understand there's a Sebel scholar in the room. Is that right?
1:22.2	This year? This year? What's your name?
1:27.1	Lauren. Nice to meet you. Congratulations. All right. Okay, so my name is Thomas Siebel and I used to be in the information technology business.
1:35.3	And so our, I was one of the computer scientist from the University of Illinois, went to work
1:43.3	for a startup company called Oracle Corporation.
1:46.7	They had about, my work was in relational database theory.
1:52.0	And the worldwide market for relational database systems at that time was like, you know,
1:56.7	zero, maybe, you know, zero.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stanford eCorner, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Stanford eCorner and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.