In September 2024, Glean, a six-year-old startup with a goal to build “Google for Work” using generative AI, secured a fresh $260 million in venture capital funding that valued the company at $4.6 billion. For CEO Arvind Jain, who had previously spent 10 years at Google as an engineer, transitioning Glean from a scrappy startup to an AI unicorn with nearly 800 employees has been a challenge.
“We had this constant pressure to scale every single function of our company while not creating chaos. Remember, our existing people have to spend time trying to find the new people, mentoring them, training them,” he told Fortune. “This industry is not allowing anyone to breathe.”
