Root Data Center
company on 1 show · 6 statements across 1 episodes · said 8 times in 1 episodes since 2025
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Van Gaal: Root commanded premium pricing through faster infrastructure delivery
“Because we're able to build for less and basically sell our product for the same, or actually we found out we could even at the same times sell it for more because we could deliver our product to market faster and some people would pay.”
Van Gaal: Root Data Center exited at an Nvidia-level revenue multiple
“We would have got when we sold, we would have got like a tech Revenue multiple kind of comparable to someone like NVIDIA.”
Van Gaal: Root Data Center grew 400% YoY for three consecutive years
“Just managing kind of this 400% year over year growth for about three consecutive years.”
Van Gaal: Shareholder infighting destroys companies and justifies equal share classes
“Shareholder infighting can kill, destroy companies, and, you know, we had some of that in our second company, so I really just wanted equality across the cap table. You know, one class to share”
Van Gaal: Root built data centers at $3M–$3.5M/MW vs competitors' $10M/MW
“Our cost to build was three, three and a half million dollars per megawatt, and in Canada at the time, we were seeing our competitors build it, like, ten million dollars per megawatt in Canada. In the U.S., they were more competitive. They're more like, you kn…”