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In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, an AI-powered workplace data search and management platform that has raised $155 Million in funding.

 

Topics Discussed:

  • Arvind’s background, including a decade in Google in the early 2000s and being a unicorn builder twice in a row
  • Why Arvind thinks luck plays a big role in building unicorns, what his superpower is, and his vision on leadership
  • Why employees spend up to 25% of their work time searching for data in the company’s servers
  • How Glean uses the power of generative AI to help people find enterprise information quickly
  • Why a startup founder starting out should look for a big problem to solve, and the challenges of achieving unicorn status

 

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