Tom Siebel, the billionaire technology executive best known in Montana for being the original financial backer behind the drug prevention campaign, the Montana Meth Project, was injured during a recent safari in Africa. According to Reuters, Siebel is back in the U.S. recovering.
“I got pretty banged up…I have a really badly broken leg,” he said in an email.
“I’m fine. Back now and working online,” he added.
Siebel made a name for himself in the 1990s when he quit Oracle Corp to open Siebel Systems, a company that pioneered customer relationship management, or CRM, software. Siebel flourished and quickly became a thorn in the side of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who tried and failed to develop a successful CRM package of his own.
Ellison eventually bought Siebel’s company.
Forbes magazine ranks Siebel as one of the world’s 500 richest men, estimating his worth at about $1.5 billion.