Watch our exclusive interview with Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO at Glean.

Glean has raised over $770M and is valued at $7.2B, with a mission to unlock enterprise knowledge.

As they cracked the enterprise #search space, we started by discussing Glean's early #contrarian bets - from defining the problem differently to building a single-tenant architecture that could be easily deployed within a customer's environment.

And #growth is booming. We explored the key differentiators that helped Glean scale from roughly $100M ARR at the beginning of 2025 to more than $300M today.

But besides being a search tool, we discussed how Glean is also reshaping the AI #token economy by providing critical context to AI models, helping customers reduce token consumption by as much as 50% in some cases.

We then dove into Glean's #AgenticEngine2, and touched on why product they give users direct control over AI reasoning power.

Other topics we covered:

• How AI has changed hiring at Glean

• What launching Google #MapMaker in #India taught Arvind about building and scaling data platforms

And Arvind's favorite #movie? 🔒⛏️🌅

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Interviewers: Yossi Garmazi & Sanat Mouli

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Chapters:

00:00 How Glean works?

00:48 Intro

01:30 From Rubrik to Glean

03:49 Glean Early Beginning

06:12 Contrarian Bets

08:36 Explosive Growth

11:04 Token Economy

14:54 Saving 30% Less Tokens

17:07 Agentic Engine 2

19:32 Enterprise Search Future

22:27 AI Impact on Glean Hiring

23:38 Assessing Candidate AI Skills

25:39 Building Google Map Maker in India

28:14 AI Impact on New Tech Hubs

29:40 Advice for Founders

30:58 What is AI Native Company?

32:47 Mentorship

32:47 Hobbies

34:28 Coffee Question

35:28 Favorite Movie

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Glean CEO: Save 50% of Tokens Using Glean | Apex Series