Founder Profile
Jonathan Ross
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Jonathan Ross?
Jonathan Ross is a founder of Groq, Inc., which was founded in 2016 with Douglas Wightman.
- Company founded
- Groq, Inc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Douglas Wightman
Background
Jonathan Ross worked at Google, where he helped start the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) program as a 20% project, before founding Groq in 2016.
Founding Story
Jonathan Ross co-founded Groq in 2016 and was its CEO until December 2025. At Google he helped start the TPU program, the custom AI accelerator Google uses across its services. At Groq he drove the compiler-first design of the LPU and the 2024 launch of GroqCloud, and raised funding from investors including BlackRock, Samsung, Cisco and Disruptive. In December 2025 he joined Nvidia as part of its roughly $20 billion licensing deal with Groq and is now Nvidia's chief software architect. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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