Transforming Work Productivity with AI: Glean CEO Arvind Jain

Dec 22, 2025

Arvind Jain, the founder and CEO of Glean and former Google engineer, shares insights on transforming workplace productivity with AI. He recounts Glean's origins from the challenges at Rubrik and details how they've built a Google-like enterprise search platform. Arvind emphasizes the significance of agentic AI to automate nonstrategic tasks, enabling workers to focus on innovation. He also discusses the importance of adaptability in AI adoption and the essential role of search in enterprise solutions. Ultimately, he argues that AI enhances human creativity rather than diminishes it.

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Startup Pain Sparked Glean

At Rubrik, rapid headcount growth caused productivity to collapse and releases slowed dramatically.
That led Arvind Jain to search for a solution and realize no enterprise product solved fragmented internal knowledge.

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Search Evolved Into Contextual Copilot

Glean began as a Google‑like internal search but evolved into an enterprise‑aware ChatGPT that knows company context.
The platform now combines retrieval from corporate systems with large models to answer work questions securely.

INSIGHT

Proactive Agents Change Workflows

Agentic AI will shift work by doing repetitive research and synthesis that humans currently spend time on.
Productivity gains come when AI proactively assists with context from meetings, email, and documents rather than waiting for queries.

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In just a few years, Glean has grown from a startup to an AI unicorn, redefining how workplaces harness knowledge and productivity. Arvind Jain, founder and CEO of Glean, joins Kim Posnett, global co-head of Investment Banking, to discuss Glean's founding story, the rapid evolution of enterprise AI, and how a relentless focus on innovation, adaptability, and empowering human potential has fueled Glean's rise to an AI market leader. This session was recorded at the 2025 Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovators Summit on October 15, 2025.

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