Overview
- In a late‑June interview with Fortune, Arvind Jain described watching colleagues at Google and highlighted a shared mindset he credits for big successes.
- Jain said he felt like an imposter when he arrived from a small town in India and deliberately observed what made some people rise inside Google.
- He pointed to Sundar Pichai’s persistent push for Google Chrome as the clearest example of that mindset, noting critics like Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer once dismissed the idea but Chrome became the world’s top browser.
- Jain applied those lessons after leaving Google, co‑founding Rubrik (which IPO’d in 2024 at about $5.6 billion) and later launching Glean, which is now valued at $7.2 billion.
- He says he still learns from his youngest employees and argues that leaders who combine hard work with a readiness to back ideas others call unrealistic are more likely to create major outcomes.