2014
Jain says he started Rubrik in early 2014, focused on protecting business data against threats such as ransomware.
“we started Rubrik, uh, that was, um, early 2014, and we picked a problem which we knew every business faced.”
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Arvind Jain
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2019
Arvind Jain says Glean started in early 2019, before large language models and the term generative AI were widely discussed.
“Glean started in early 2019. You know, in those days, nobody was talking about large language models, and the term generative AI did not exist to my knowledge at the time.”
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Jain cites research studies saying people spend about one third of their working time trying to find things.
“there have been a lot of research studies that have been done. Uh, people, uh, would spend one 3rd of their working time just trying to find things.”
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Jain says enterprise search had a history of failures over two to three decades, including Google's attempts.
“in the two or three decades, two or three decades of enterprise search history, including like products from Google. Like, you know, every time, you know, Google tried to actually build an enterprise search product, it was always, you know, always failed.”
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Jain says software engineers may increasingly become code reviewers rather than code writers.
“software engineers, you know, you hear that in the future we're gonna become more more code reviewers as opposed to, like, you know, people who write code.”
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Jain uses a Glean agent to generate up-to-date tutorials on internal systems by checking design docs against recent Jira tickets and code commits.
“I actually ask Glean to actually, gen, you know, give, generate a latest, you know, up to date tutorial on that topic for me”
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Jain says roughly 95 percent of enterprise data is unstructured.
“95 of your enterprise data is unstructured, uh, and this, you know, is full of insights.”
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Jain says agents asking humans for information is a plausible future use, alongside humans asking agents questions.
“agents are actually pinging. You know, people to retrieve some information on them, from them”
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Jain says he does not shrink his team because of AI and instead wants each person to do ten times more work.
“I don't actually shrink my team size. Um, uh, I sure do grow it, but I want every to be able to do ten times more work”
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Arvind Jain said AI will capture revenue now spent on services, an industry he said is 25 times larger than the software industry.
“it's actually going to grab a lot of revenue that actually today is in services industry, which is 25 times larger than software industry.”
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