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In just 3 months, CoreWeave CEO, once a crypto-mining bro, becomes a deca-billionaire


CoreWeave remains a symbol of the AI industry in 2025: Massive revenue, investor enthusiasm built on an insatiable need for more.

CoreWeave co-founder and CEO Michael Intrator’s net worth has skyrocketed to about $10 billion in the three months since the AI firm went public, Bloomberg reports. But the wildest part of Intrator’s history, as well as that of his co-founders Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee, is that the whole thing started out as a make-money-quick, crypto mining enterprise when their previous company, a hedge fund, failed. The business partners went from a closet full of GPUs to thousands of them in a New Jersey warehouse, to an AI training experiment with an open source LLM group, EleutherAI, Venturo previously told TechCrunch.

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