Founder Profile
Douglas Wightman
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Douglas Wightman?
Douglas Wightman is a founder of Groq, Inc., which was founded in 2016 with Jonathan Ross.
- Company founded
- Groq, Inc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Jonathan Ross
Background
Douglas (Doug) Wightman is a former Google engineer who co-founded Groq with Jonathan Ross in 2016.
Founding Story
Doug Wightman co-founded Groq with Jonathan Ross in 2016 after working as an engineer at Google. He stayed with Groq after Nvidia's December 2025 licensing deal and, by mid-2026, had become CEO, leading the company's shift toward running an AI inference cloud and its $650 million raise in June 2026. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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