Why did you start C3 AI years before a market for enterprise AI existed?
Replied byTom Siebel
Founder, Chairman & CEO at C3 AI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. $20.8 Million/month
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Started: 2009
In 2009, before major cloud platforms were established, we saw that cloud computing, the internet of things, and predictive analytics would converge. Nobody believed in enterprise AI for the first decade, but today the market is thousands of times larger than we imagined.
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