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Thomas Siebel

Founder & Executive Chairman, C3ai

Search every verified Thomas Siebel interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Thomas Siebel, founder and executive chairman of C3.ai, discussed the company's first-quarter fiscal 2027 results during a September 2026 earnings call. He stated that the company's restructuring was nearly complete, with annualized cost savings of approximately $135 million achieved through a roughly 40% headcount reduction and lower non-employee expenses. He provided revenue guidance of $51 million to $55 million for the second quarter and $210 million to $240 million for the full fiscal year. Siebel said he was focused on building the sales pipeline and demonstrating consistent quarter-over-quarter revenue growth, and he noted plans to increase investment in forward-deployed engineers to support customer deployments, with costs expected to be offset over time by the company's C3 code product. In a February 2026 interview with Condoleezza Rice on "Only In America," Siebel discussed his personal history, including early jobs as a cowboy and construction worker, and his path from studying history to working at Oracle. He described himself as "the American dream" and expressed optimism about the United States, saying he believed the country's "greatest days" were ahead and that the American experiment was "just getting started." He also spoke about the potential of AI to transform government services and the importance of resilience and reinvention in entrepreneurship.

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“Rather than standing up big bureaucracies, pass laws: make it unlawful to publish a foundation model that results in a public health hazard, and make it unlawful to publish an algorithm used to disrupt democratic processes — and if somebody does it, put them in prison.”

“We have a company that's losing a billion dollars a year that just got financed at a $150 billion valuation — that company OpenAI could be gone next Monday; if it were gone nobody would notice.”

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