TIME100 AI 2026 · Leaders
Michael Intrator
Co-founder and CEO, CoreWeave
CoreWeave started as a crypto-mining side project in a natural gas hedge fund's office, then moved to a New Jersey garage.
- Born
- 1969
- Now
- Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, CoreWeave
- Studied
- Columbia University, Binghamton University
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Spent 16 years at Natsource in New York trading carbon credits, then co-founded a natural gas hedge fund.
en.wikipedia.org - Numbers
During the 2018 crypto crash his team bought thousands of GPUs from miners for pennies on the dollar and made an estimated $80 million mining ethereum.
en.wikipedia.org - First
CoreWeave's first AI job, in 2021, was building a cluster of 96 Nvidia A100 chips for the open research group EleutherAI.
en.wikipedia.org - Turning point
Struggling to raise from Silicon Valley investors, he used CoreWeave's own H100 chips as collateral for a $2.3 billion Blackstone-led loan in 2023.
en.wikipedia.org
Career
- CoreWeaveCo-founder, Chairman and CEO2017 to now
- Hudson Ridge Asset ManagementCo-founder and CEO2013–2018
- Natsource Asset ManagementManaging Director, Principal Portfolio Manager1998–2014
Education
- MPA, Public finance (SIPA), Columbia University, 1995
- BA, Political science, Binghamton University, 1991