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CEO and co-founder of CoreWeave, a cloud provider specializing in GPU computing infrastructure for AI workloads.
CoreWeave's three co-founders have sold $3.3 billion of stock since the March 2025 IPO, $2.4 billion of it this year, Bloomberg reported. The shares are down about 50% over the past year, and Nvidia, a 10% holder, says the risk of a credit event is low.
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Nvidia director Mark Stevens led third-quarter insider sellers with $946.6 million of stock, ahead of Arista's Jayshree Ullal and Jeff Bezos. The three sellers' sales came to about 0.6% of their combined $302 billion fortune, so on the evidence they look more like diversification than a judgement on AI prices.
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All seven CoreWeave customers running workloads in a 13-buyer SiliconANGLE study expect to grow their spending or workloads. Three of the ten buyers past evaluation are not running on it, and hyperscalers still hold the rest of the application stack.
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Nvidia put $2 billion into CoreWeave stock at $87.20 a share, and both companies committed to more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030. The equity comes to about $400 million per promised gigawatt.
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CoreWeave's revenue backlog reached $66.8bn at the end of 2025, or 13.4 times the $5bn of revenue it booked for the year. The contracts are conditioned on delivery, and 2.25 GW of its contracted power is not yet live.
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A mandatory sell-to-cover accounts for roughly 0.05% of insider selling since the lockup expired. The scheduled tranches behind it moved 307,692 shares at a time.
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Management says scale is starting to show up as operating leverage. The release as supplied gives a backlog, power figures and more than $14bn of fresh capital, but no margin numbers.
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Pre-arranged 10b5-1 plans and a dual-class structure let CoreWeave's co-founders convert control into cash without giving up control. Underwriters should price both halves.
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CoreWeave, Nebius and Cerebras all grew fast and lost more money in Q2 2026. The spending curves say capacity is still being contracted ahead of the demand it serves.
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