A headshot of Thomas Siebel standing in front of a cloudy backdrop
Billionaire tech CEO Thomas Siebel said venture capital investors should have prepared startups for the possibility of a collapse like SVB.
  • Tom Siebel, the billionaire CEO of C3.ai, offered a scathing post-mortem of the Silicon Valley Bank fallout.
  • Top VCs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen let startups entrust their finances to a "C minus bank," he said.
  • Federal regulators have said they would protect all customers with deposits at Silicon Valley Bank.

As post-mortems of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse go, billionaire Tom Siebel has a blunt analysis: Top venture capitalists should have seen it coming and prepared their portfolio companies, he told Insider.