Speaker 1
Yeah, my number one advice to founders is conviction and persistence. So if you see a problem that's out there, then don't think too much about who else is solving it or how big the market is. Just go and solve the problem and persist and believe in it. And there's going to be ups and downs. There won't be enough people telling you that like, hey, look, I see this problem, but I don't see myself paying for it. Don't worry about all of that part. If you think that, you know, it's an odd enough problem. Like a lot of people face it, having that conviction and belief and like staying on course is I think that this is the most important thing. Welcome
Speaker 2
to the product market fit show brought to you by Mistral, a seatstitch firm based in Canada. I'm Pablo. I'm a founder turned VC. My goal is to help early stage founders like you find product market fit. Well, Arvind, welcome to the show. Thank you so
Speaker 1
much for having me.
Speaker 2
So listen, I've got your LinkedIn open right here. I'm looking through it 10 years distinguished engineer at Google and the claim to fame as far as I understand it is you made Google search as fast as a blink of an eye and you go off. You start rubric that actually is filing for IPO. Now they're doing like half a billion dollar revenue, you know, worth five to 10 billion dollars. But you know, that wasn't enough for you. You kind of left halfway through that story started glean, which is what you're working on today. And you just raised 200 million dollars for that at, you know, over two billion dollar valuation. So my first question honestly is like, what's the secret man? What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 1
Well, I mean, no secrets. You know, I would just say, you know, I've been so fortunate to be actually, you know, be with people who
Speaker 2
want to build great products and achieve some success with them.
