Glean
Leadership History
1 leader · 2019 to present
Arvind Jain is the CEO of Glean, in the role since 2019.
| Name | Role | From | To | Years in role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arvind Jain | Founder & CEO | 2019 | Present | 7 |
Glean is often described as "Google for the enterprise." Employees at large companies spread knowledge across chat, documents, tickets, CRM records and code. Glean connects to those systems, keeps an index that respects each source's permissions, and lets people search, ask questions in natural language, or hand off tasks to AI agents. It has grown from a search product launched in 2021 into a broader Work AI platform used by companies such as Databricks, Reddit, Pinterest and Samsung. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Glean sells enterprise software to large companies, usually through IT and CIO organizations, on multi-year contracts. According to CEO Arvind Jain (TechCrunch, May 2026), customers can choose a consumption-based model that charges per use, or a hybrid model that combines a fixed monthly fee per active user with separate usage fees for AI model consumption. Revenue therefore grows with seat expansion inside existing accounts and with how heavily employees and agents query the platform. Because part of the top line is usage-based, TechCrunch noted that some of Glean's reported $300 million is closer to an annualized run rate than classic subscription ARR.
Founder & CEO
2019 – Present
7 years (current)
Founded Glean in 2019 after co-founding Rubrik and spending over a decade at Google. Took the company out of stealth in 2021, added generative AI answers and then an agent platform (generally available May 2025), and raised funding at valuations rising from $1 billion in 2022 to $7.2 billion in 2025.
Led Glean from launch to $300 million ARR by May 2026.
Glean's founder has said it had essentially no competition in its first four or five years; that ended as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Salesforce and Atlassian all launched enterprise search or knowledge tools of their own. Suite vendors can bundle these features into licenses customers already pay for, which pressures Glean on price. Glean also has to keep connectors and permission syncing current across hundreds of third-party APIs and manage model inference costs as more of its revenue becomes usage-based.
Arvind Jain is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Glean. An IIT Delhi and University of Washington computer science graduate, Jain spent over 11 years as a Distinguished Engineer at Google leading Search and Chrome infrastructure, and co-founded enterprise cloud backup pioneer Rubrik in 2014.
While building Rubrik, Arvind Jain observed that as modern companies adopted dozens of SaaS applications, employees struggled to find internal information. He realized that while searching the public internet on Google was effortless, searching internal corporate knowledge was broken, inspiring him to build 'Google for the enterprise'.
Arvind Jain positioned Glean ahead of the generative AI boom by having spent four years building the foundational enterprise knowledge graph and permissioning engine, allowing Glean to smoothly integrate LLMs (Glean Assistant and Glean Apps) as soon as ChatGPT debuted.
Glean has assembled a top-tier executive leadership team including seasoned leaders from Google, Facebook, Rubrik, and Microsoft, overseeing global enterprise sales, product management, AI research, customer success, and legal compliance.
Arvind Jain emphasizes an engineering-led culture rooted in algorithmic rigor, high velocity of product shipping, deep customer empathy, humility, and maintaining high ethical standards around enterprise data privacy and security.
Arvind Jain regularly advises enterprise CIOs on practical AI adoption, teaching organizations how to implement secure RAG pipelines, solve identity permissions, and measure real workforce productivity gains rather than deploying speculative AI experiments.
Glean's board includes prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists such as Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins) and Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed), providing strategic guidance to help Glean scale as an independent category-defining enterprise software pillar.
Arvind Jain envisions Glean as the central AI operating system for work, a ubiquitous cognitive layer that understands everything a company knows, anticipates employee needs, automates complex workflows, and amplifies human intellect across all industries.
Arvind Jain is the founder and CEO. He brings incredible credibility to the enterprise search space because he spent over a decade at Google helping build their core search algorithms, before co-founding Rubrik (a massive cloud data management company) and eventually pivoting to solve enterprise search with Glean.
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