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Arvind Jain
Arvind Jain spent a career making the world searchable. Then an employee survey showed him the harder problem was hiding inside the office.
Nobody Reads the Company Wiki. Now AI Reads It For You
Atlassian, Notion, Zendesk, Glean and a pack of rivals spent a decade helping teams write things down. The AI scramble of 2025 rewrote the job description - now the software has to read it all back.
Spekit, Glean and the End of Looking Stuff Up at Work
Two well-funded startups are attacking the same quiet tax on office work - the hours people lose hunting for answers that already exist somewhere in the company. One buries the answer inside the sales tools; the other indexes everything and lets you ask.
Your Company's Knowledge Is Lost. These 8 Tools Want It Back
Glean, Whatfix, Zendesk, Salesforce, Slite, Spekit, Archbee and Nuclino all sell the same promise - that your team will finally find what it needs. Here is how the eight of them actually split the work.
Glean
Glean is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company that builds a 'Work AI' platform - a permissions-aware assistant, search layer, and agent environment that connects to a company's scattered SaaS tools and documents so employees can find answers and automate work. Founded in 2019 by former Google search engineers led by Arvind Jain, Glean crossed $200M in ARR by late 2025 and was valued at $7.2 billion in its June 2025 Series F.
Chris O'Neill
Chris O'Neill is a veteran technology executive with 25+ years of leadership across Google, Evernote, Glean, and Xero. Best known for leading Evernote's turnaround as CEO (2015-2018) and doubling its user base, he joined GrowthLoop as CEO in August 2024, steering the composable CDP startup through its AI transformation and Series D funding. A Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth) MBA and former Google Canada Managing Director who scaled that business to billions in revenue, O'Neill is also a board director at Gap Inc. and a published contributor to Fast Company and Fortune on the themes of AI, leadership, and compound growth.
Ethan Choi
Ethan Choi is a Partner at Khosla Ventures leading the firm's Growth Fund, where he writes checks between $15M and $70M into cloud infrastructure, SaaS, enterprise, and consumer internet companies from Seed through Series C. Before joining Khosla in 2024, he was a Partner at Accel, where he backed Klaviyo (now NYSE: KVYO), 1Password, and Pismo (acquired by Visa). His investing philosophy pivoted from metrics-first to founder-first — he now spends 90% of his diligence energy on the people rather than the numbers. A former LDS missionary who spent two years in South Korea, Choi is an unusually direct voice on AI's disruption of white-collar work and the coming robotics inflection point.