Jack Grodnick
FounderFounder at Control Seat
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedControl Seat · YC
About
Jack Grodnick previously worked at Tesla, SpaceX, and Amazon. He is now building Control Seat, a SCADA platform for factory hardware monitoring and control.
Founder at Control SeatYC S26
Intro paths
Jack went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Control Seat's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Jack can intro founders to Control Seat's investors below.
Control Seat's investors · 1
Co-founders at Control Seat
Experience
- Control SeatCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- SpaceXHigh Power Engineer2025Starbase, Texas, United States
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2025Seattle, Washington, United States
- TeslaControls Engineer2024Fremont, California, United States
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jack Grodnick?
- Jack Grodnick previously worked at Tesla, SpaceX, and Amazon. He is now building Control Seat, a SCADA platform for factory hardware monitoring and control.
- Where does Jack Grodnick work?
- Jack Grodnick is Founder of Control Seat.
- What companies did Jack Grodnick found?
- Jack Grodnick founded Control Seat.
- Where did Jack Grodnick go to school?
- Jack Grodnick studied at Dartmouth College (Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Economics); Y Combinator (S26).
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