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Jack Grodnick

Founder

Founder 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.

LinkedIn ↗

Founder at Control SeatYC S26

Intro paths

YC

Jack went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

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 ↗

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In turn, Jack can intro founders to Control Seat's investors below.

Control Seat's investors · 1

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Control Seat

WSWarren Shepard
Warren ShepardFounder

Experience

  1. Control SeatCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. SpaceXHigh Power Engineer2025Starbase, Texas, United States
  3. AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2025Seattle, Washington, United States
  4. TeslaControls Engineer2024Fremont, California, United States

Education

  1. Dartmouth CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Economics
  2. Y CombinatorS26

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,668

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Sam AltmanPresidentFounded LooptFred EhrsamYC Summer 2012Founded CoinbaseMatt HuangYC Winter 2011Founded HotspotsTrae StephensYC Winter 2022Founded PursuitDelian AsparouhovYC Summer 2014Founded Nightingale +1Justin KanYC Winter 2018Founded Rye +3

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Dartmouth College mafia70

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Errik AndersonA.B.Founded Alector +1Keith LendenBAFounded Boundless Bio +1Lina ZhangPh.D.Founded Jerry +1Suril KantariaBAFounded Adaptional +1PankajBSFounded AI21 LabsErrik AndersonA.B.Founded Alector

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Same school

Also attended Dartmouth College398

Tomasz TunguzFounder & General Partner at Theory VenturesScott SandellExecutive Chairman & Chief Investment Officer at NEAJames DetweilerVP of Investments at Felicis VenturesBen RobbinsInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Mounisha AnumoluInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Ren RileyAdvisor at Oak Investment Partners

+ 392 more

Also attended Y Combinator2,000

Leo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesJustin SwartPartner at Bitkraft Esports VenturesVictor SantosVictor Scout at One Way VenturesSwapnil JainCEO, Observe.AI at EMERGENT VENTURESChase AdamPartner at Very Serious Ventures

+ 1,994 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Control Seat1

Warren ShepardFounder at Control Seat

Also worked at SpaceX147

Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesAsanka JayasuriyaPortfolio Support at 8VCJustin RoseInvestment Team at 8VCGARRY HILLInvestment at Makers FundHelen LiangFounder & General Partner at FoundersX Ventures

+ 141 more

Also worked at Amazon597

Dave MunichielloInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Viswa SankaranarayananVenture Partner at Monta Vista CapitalAlessandro De BenedettiAssociate at NorthzoneScott JacobsonManaging Director at Madrona Venture GroupBill RichterCEO of Qumulo and venture partner at MadronaEduardo BlasiAnalyst at Inveready Technology Investment Group

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Also worked at Tesla180

Steve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesArpan ShahInvestor at Spark CapitalJustin LiuVice President at Sapphire VenturesErica WaichmanHead of People & Community at Canvas VenturesBen FawEntrepreneur-in-Residence at Context VenturesBrock CsiraInvestor at Matter Venture Partners

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