# Douglas Wightman (slim)

> Douglas Wightman is co-founder and first CEO of Groq. Groq Speech-to-Text on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and first CEO, Groq.

Douglas Wightman co-founded Groq in 2016 with a group of former Google engineers led by Jonathan Ross, and was its first chief executive.

## What Douglas builds

- [Groq Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 71.8/100, in 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 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Gavin Hogan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gavin-hogan/), Head of Platform Engineering
- [Jonathan Ross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-ross/), Founder, Groq; now at Nvidia

## Backed by

- [Disruptive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/disruptive/)
- [Infinitum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/infinitum/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)

## 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.

### What does Groq make?

Anchor Terminal lists Groq Speech-to-Text from Groq.

### 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.

## Sources

- https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
- https://console.groq.com/docs/billing-faqs
- https://groq.com/
- https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groq

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