Founder of a listed tool
Douglas Wightman
Co-founder and first CEO, Groq, named behind the Groq Speech-to-Text listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Douglas builds
Groq Speech-to-Text BB · Speech-to-text
Groq's hosted speech-to-text API. It runs OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and Whisper Large v3 Turbo on OpenAI-compatible transcription and translation endpoints, for uploaded files or audio URLs, with a half-price batch mode.
Co-founder and first CEO, Groq, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Gavin Hogan Head of Platform Engineering
- Jonathan Ross Founder, Groq; now at Nvidia
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Questions
Who is Douglas Wightman?
Douglas Wightman co-founded Groq in 2016 with a group of former Google engineers led by Jonathan Ross, and was its first chief executive. He was earlier an engineer at Google X.
What does Groq make?
Anchor Terminal lists Groq Speech-to-Text from Groq. Groq's hosted speech-to-text API. It runs OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and Whisper Large v3 Turbo on OpenAI-compatible transcription and translation endpoints, for uploaded files or audio URLs, with a half-price batch mode.
Who has invested in Groq?
The sources our research read name Disruptive, Infinitum and NVIDIA.
How are Douglas's tools graded?
Groq Speech-to-Text is graded BB, 71.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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