This billionaire entrepreneur shares 3 advices on how to keep inventing

There’s a lot to learn from Tom Siebel’s personal and professional life. Founder of C3 IoT, Siebel was gorged by an elephant in Tanzania and underwent 19 surgeries to be able to fully walk again.

Siebel founded Siebel Systems in 1993 and sold it to Oracle for $5.8 billion in 2006. In 2009, he founded C3 IoT, an IoT platform and applications company.

Soon after he founded the company, Siebel was gored by an elephant. But, this incident did not stop Siebel from inventing.

In the Fortt Knox Podcast: rich ideas, powerful people, Siebel said one should always keep moving.

During the podcast, Siebel said he had 19 reconstructive surgeries and relied on an electric wheelchair to get around. He kept looking for a doctor who could help him to make real progress.

"I would go visit physicians, and they would explain that they're going to have to remove my leg, and I'd say OK, you're fired,” he said.

After all the search, he called the maker of the device that was holding his leg together and went to a doctor who had experience in installing it.

There are multiple lessons to be learnt from Siebel’s life. Here are 3 most important takeaways from his podcast: