Glean

7 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2025 by Deedy Das · said 65 times in 10 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Shawn Wang (34), Jacob Effron (10), Joubin Mirzadegan (6), Deedy Das (6), Ashu Garg (2), Shawn "swyx" Wang (1), Pranav Reddy (1), Jaya Gupta (1)

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Everything said about Glean, oldest first

Nov 14, 2025
Assertion Supported
Glean Operates at a Several Hundred Million Dollar Revenue Scale
“Look at the revenue of Anthropic and OpenAI right now. These are billion dollar revenue scale businesses. Glean is several hundred million dollar revenue scale business.”
Deedy Das Nov 14, 2025 ▶ 9:16 Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
Nov 14, 2025
Assertion Supported
Sam Altman Barred Investors Who Backed Glean From Investing in OpenAI
“Sam Altman once came out and said, if you're an investor in OpenAI and one of these five companies, including Glean, we don't want you as an investor.”
Deedy Das Nov 14, 2025 ▶ 9:02 Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
Dec 12, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Mirzadegan: Glean is the last incubation Kleiner Perkins has done
“I was working really closely with Arvind at Glean. It's actually the last incubation that we've done here.”
Joubin Mirzadegan Dec 12, 2025 ▶ 6:56 AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
Dec 12, 2025 positive
Opinion
Mirzadegan: Glean's Arvind Jain is a product genius, though GTM isn't native
“Arvin is maybe the most genius product and technical mind that I've ever worked with. He definitely, I would say go to market is not native to him.”
Joubin Mirzadegan Dec 12, 2025 ▶ 7:06 AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
Dec 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mirzadegan: 38 of 40 top Kleiner Perkins portfolio executives are first-timers
“Inside the KP portfolio, ok, are top eight companies. Let's take five exec roles across the top eight companies. Companies like Rippling and Glean, ok. 38 out of 40 of those roles, ok, those executives report to the CEO for the first time in their career.”
Joubin Mirzadegan Dec 12, 2025 ▶ 33:03 AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
Dec 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Mirzadegan: Arvind Jain built Glean using Rubrik as core design partner
“The advantage that Arvin had was that he was previously the co-founder of Rubrik. So he noticed this problem at Rubrik, left Rubrik to start Glean, and he basically built Glean for Rubrik, right? And the bet that he was going to make was like, rough and tumble…”
Joubin Mirzadegan Dec 12, 2025 ▶ 18:48 AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
Feb 4, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Garg: Deep automation will be solved by dedicated companies, not Glean
“Glean's an amazing company, and I have a lot of respect for Arvin, but it's so horizontal. Like it's a very powerful chatbot, and it allows people to build some agentic applications or systems of agents on top of them, but really the deep cross-functional cros…”
Ashu Garg Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 29:10 ⚡️Context Graphs: according to the authors — Jaya Gupta, Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital
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