{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Grit","title":"#168 CEO & Founder Glean, Arvind Jain w/ Mamoon Hamid: New Playbook","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4f6d5eff\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2753,"description":"Guest: Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean, and Mamoon Hamid, partner at Kleiner Perkins\n“I’m an engineer, so I have doubts about everything,” says Glean founder and CEO Arvind Jain. Well ... almost everything. Since launching Glean in 2019, he has held to the belief that “all of us are going to have really powerful AI assistants” in the future. With a several-year lead on generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Glean has built a growing club of CIO fans. With the broad acceptance of AI over the past year, Arvind says, “the level of confidence is higher than ever before.”\nIn this episode, Arvind, Mamoon, and Joubin discuss golfer hats, ideas vs. execution, X1, energy audits, small towns in India, IIT, proving yourself, Rubrik, rejecting product-led growth, “workplace assistants,” CIO fans, internet ’94, Parker Conrad, and work as a hobby.\nIn this episode, we cover:\nArvind’s newfound fame (01:08)\nThe state of the AI business (03:42)\n“Why now?” (06:05)\nBuilding great products (09:16)\nCompany-building (11:27)\nArvind’s childhood (14:37)\nCompetition and hard work (16:44)\nLeaving Google (18:46)\nGlean vs. Rubrik (20:53)\nThe future of work (27:22)\n“Holy shit” moments (29:25)\nFinding positivity (32:51)\nAI hype (34:31)\nHow to pick a venture capitalist (38:55)\nTurning off (42:24)\nHiring and the meaning of “grit” (44:41)\nLinks:\nConnect with ArvindLinkedIn\nConnect with MamoonTwitter\nLinkedIn\nConnect with JoubinTwitter\nLinkedIn\nEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com \nLearn more about Kleiner Perkins\nThis episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jCea5f44KBONhOsyLyht9nXUrj2YBNfA6fc-kgyfWTM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzk3NzAvMTY2Nzg2/MjQyOC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}