# Michael Intrator

Co-founder and CEO, CoreWeave. TIME100 AI 2026, Leaders. CoreWeave started as a crypto-mining side project in a natural gas hedge fund's office, then moved to a New Jersey garage. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))

- Born: 1969 ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))
- Education: MPA, Public finance (SIPA), Columbia University, 1995; BA, Political science, Binghamton University, 1991 ([coreweave.com](https://www.coreweave.com/leadership/mike-intrator), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-intrator-2383aa57), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))
- Career: CoreWeave (Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, 2017 to now); Hudson Ridge Asset Management (Co-founder and CEO, 2013–2018); Natsource Asset Management (Managing Director, Principal Portfolio Manager, 1998–2014) ([coreweave.com](https://www.coreweave.com/leadership/mike-intrator), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-intrator-2383aa57))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/michael-intrator/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/michael-intrator

- Spent 16 years at Natsource in New York trading carbon credits, then co-founded a natural gas hedge fund. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))
- CoreWeave began in 2016 as a crypto-mining side project on Nvidia GPUs in his hedge fund's Manhattan office, before moving to a New Jersey garage. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator))