# Arvind Jain

> Arvind Jain is the founder and CEO of Glean, an enterprise AI company built around a problem he experienced while scaling Rubrik: employees could search the public web more easily than their own workplace. Raised in Jaipur and trained at IIT Delhi and the University of Washington, Jain worked at Microsoft, Akamai, Riverbed, and Google, where he became a Distinguished Engineer and helped build systems for Search, YouTube, and Maps. He later co-founded Rubrik before starting Glean in 2019. His career joins deep search infrastructure expertise with a measured operating philosophy centered on useful products, secure access to company knowledge, and AI that augments people at work.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Glean
- **Organizations:** Glean, Rubrik, Google, Riverbed Technology, Akamai Technologies, Microsoft
- **Education:** BTech in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Master's in Computer Science, University of Washington
- **Known for:** Reached the rank of Distinguished Engineer at Google., Helped develop major systems for Google Search, YouTube, and Google Maps., Co-founded cloud data management and security company Rubrik.

## Career timeline

- **1997-1999** — Worked as a software engineer at Microsoft.
- **1999-2002** — Worked as an architect at Akamai Technologies.
- **2002-2003** — Worked as a founding engineer at Riverbed Technology.
- **2003-2014** — Spent 11 years at Google, becoming a Distinguished Engineer and leading work across Search, YouTube, and Maps.
- **2014** — Co-founded Rubrik and led product and engineering work.
- **2018** — Identified fragmented workplace knowledge as a major productivity problem while reviewing Rubrik employee surveys.
- **2019** — Founded Glean with T.R. Vishwanath, Piyush Prahladka, and Tony Gentilcore.
- **2021** — Glean publicly launched its enterprise search product.
- **2023** — Glean added generative AI capabilities to its workplace search foundation.
- **2025** — Glean raised a $150 million Series F at a $7.2 billion valuation.

## Achievements

- Reached the rank of Distinguished Engineer at Google.
- Helped develop major systems for Google Search, YouTube, and Google Maps.
- Co-founded cloud data management and security company Rubrik.
- Founded Glean and developed a permissions-aware enterprise search and AI platform.
- Led Glean through a $150 million Series F financing at a $7.2 billion valuation in June 2025.
- Received IIT Delhi's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2022.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — A Harvard Data Science Review fireside chat traced Jain's path from IIT Delhi through Google, Rubrik, and Glean and set out his view of horizontal and vertical enterprise AI.
- **2026-06** — Jain argued at the Axios AI+NY Summit that rising AI costs should make employee AI usage part of hiring decisions.
- **2026-05** — Jain published Glean's Agent Development Lifecycle framework for connecting agent development to measurable business value.
- **2026-02** — Glean introduced a new contextual Assistant aimed at broader workforce adoption.
- **2025-12** — Glean announced that it had surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue.
- **2025-06** — Glean raised $150 million in Series F financing at a $7.2 billion valuation, led by Wellington Management.

## Links

- Website: https://glean.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jain-arvind

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