Jain: Tactical data analyst and recruiting sourcer roles will disappear
Arvind Jain · Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jul 11, 2026 · at 47:21
Arvin Jain is the founder and CEO of Glean, an enterprise AI platform valued at $7.2 billion. He explains which operational enterprise roles will be automated away by AI.
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“A lot of analyst roles, like, or like the data analyst roles, which are not business thinkers, you know, they were given a task that, hey, like, I need to see this data, and then they produced, like, they sort of go and build those specific dashboards, configure backend systems. I think, like, that, that kind of work definitely goes away. The I think business intelligence is going to be very different business owners will directly be able to get answers to their questions. So, so business and business analysts, like, you know, data analysts, you know, that's sort of one many HR roles, sources, for example, sources like in recruiting, that's the role that I think is going to definitely get consumed in like, you know, into like a full cycle recruiting role.”
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