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Key Takeaways Jonathan Ross is the founder and former CEO of AI chipmaker Groq.
Ross admitted to making management mistakes earlier in his career that cost Groq three to four years of progress.
Ross said he made hiring mistakes and had to change his mindset when approaching talent.
Jonathan Ross, the founder and former CEO of AI chipmaker Groq, helmed the company for seven years before leaving in December to join Nvidia full-time as a chief software architect. In a recent interview, Ross acknowledged that he made management mistakes earlier in his career that cost Groq years of progress.
“I was a terrible leader. I was one of the world’s worst leaders when I started,” Ross said on an episode of the Founders podcast released earlier this week. “The first thing that you have to do as a founder is you have to go from the technical thing that you know how to do and that you can add value with, to learning how to manage people. For me, that probably cost Groq three to four years.”
As CEO of Groq, Ross said he made the mistake of hiring people who needed to be told what to do and then giving them too much responsibility.
“What ended up happening was things would just grind to a halt because they wouldn’t know what to do, and I wasn’t telling them what to do, and they were used to being told what to do,” Ross said on the podcast.
Ross solved the problem by becoming more selective about hiring. Instead of looking for positive attributes or reasons to hire a person, he switched to looking for negatives or reasons not to hire them. He shifted from “trying to grow talent” to “trying to select talent.”
Groq signed a $20 billion deal with Nvidia
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