Glean CEO Arvind Jain responds to questions about AI infrastructure Capex returns by arguing AI displaces services spend rather than just software budgets.
Insight
Jain: 95% enterprise AI failure rate is desirable for tech experimentation
“The thing that I feel you know, is happening in enterprises, you hear these 95% of projects fail, But, like, you know, like, that's actually what you want. Like, you, like, when you are actually experimenting with new technology, if all of your projects are fa…”
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Jain: SaaS leaders will not be relegated to just backend databases
“So I think ultimately, like, software is an end-to-end stack in my opinion, and all of these companies, you know, I don't think they're going away. I don't think, you know, they're going to relegate it to becoming a database.”
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Jain: Proactive AI will expand power-user adoption to 100%
“I want to see more proactive, proactive AI products coming, coming into the market next year. That, that's what, that, that is what is going to actually take it from a five percent of the users being power users to a hundred percent.”
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Jain: Generative AI will not fizzle out like robotic process automation
“It's fundamental, it's different, and the, and that's why, like, you know, I don't think, you know, we, this technology is going to fizzle out. And it's not like, you know, you don't have to be, like, a financial expert or, you know, like, sort of a deep think…”
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Jain: AI intelligence layer may capture half of enterprise value
“I know we do think that the intelligence layer is actually going to be a pretty thick one. Maybe, you know, it's, it will capture half of the enterprise value.”
Opinion
Jain: Most enterprise employees use ChatGPT and Claude daily
“Everybody in your company is probably using ChatGBD and Claude and other tools on a daily basis.”