Founder, per Fortune, Core Scientific, Inc.
Michael Levitt
Fortune names Michael Levitt as a founder of Core Scientific with Darin Feinstein. Company filings show Levitt as chairman from June 2018 and chief executive from May 2021. The proxy pay table lists Levitt as principal executive through 2023.
- Role
- Former Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chair
- Company
- Nasdaq: CORZ
- Education
- B.B.A. and J.D., University of Michigan.
Career
- 2001Founded Stone Tower Capital.
- 2012 to 2016Vice Chairman and Partner of Apollo Global Management, after Apollo acquired Stone Tower.
- 2016 to 2021Chief executive of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
- June 2018Became chairman of Core Scientific.
- May 2021Became chief executive.
- 2023Last year the proxy pay table lists Levitt as principal executive, alongside Adam Sullivan.
What the record does not show
We have no current stake to report. Levitt is not named in the 2026 ownership table. The 2022 filing describes a chairman from 2018 and does not itself call Levitt a founder, so that title rests on Fortune and Wikipedia.
Source: Core Scientific Form S-1/A, May 2022, Fortune, Wikipedia on Core Scientific. This page covers what those documents state. It is not a full biography.
Other founders of Core Scientific, Inc.
- Darin FeinsteinChief Vision Officer and Co-Chair as of May 2022
Questions
What was Michael Levitt's role at Core Scientific, Inc.?
Fortune names Michael Levitt as a founder of Core Scientific with Darin Feinstein. Company filings show Levitt as chairman from June 2018 and chief executive from May 2021. The proxy pay table lists Levitt as principal executive through 2023.
Who founded Core Scientific, Inc.?
Founded in 2017. Fortune names Michael Levitt and Darin Feinstein. A 2022 company filing says Feinstein co-founded it.