Siebel Systems
also referred to as: siebel · siebel system
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2015 by Javier Soltero · said 24 times in 18 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Miles Grimshaw (5), Pat Grady (3), Steve Goldberg (2), Ariel Cohen (2), Tomasz Tunguz (1), Saam Motamedi (1), Michael Eisenberg (1), Javier Soltero (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
- 20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
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2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Steve Goldberg: Core Questions All CFOs Ask Today When Buying | E1094 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Siebel Systems, oldest first
Sep 6, 2015 negative
Soltero: Open-source software cannot be sold via traditional top-down enterprise models
“They were doing a sort of typical top-down sales approach and the type of go to market dynamics usually reserved for the Siebels and you know, oracles of the world, and you couldn't do that then, you can't do it now.”
Mar 13, 2017 neutral
Grady: Early SaaS was a business model shift, not a UX revolution
“If you look at the last decade or so of software, the transition has been from on-premise to SaaS or on-premise to cloud, and that's been a wonderfully impactful transition, but at a very fundamental level, it's been a transition in the business model, not a t…”
Oct 14, 2021 negative
Jul 8, 2024 negative
Nov 13, 2025 bullish
O'Driscoll: AI Software Automates Actual Work Rather Than Just Updating UIs
“Salesforce was rebuild Siebel in the cloud, and it was fun, and we made a lot of money, but you're right, somewhat boring. What is really exciting now is you're not just talking about rebuild Salesforce exactly the same, but with a slightly modern UI. You are …”