Root Data Center

6 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 3, 2025 by Jason Van Gaal · said 8 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Feb 3, 2025 positive
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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”
Jason Van Gaal Feb 3, 2025 ▶ 11:38 He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show
Feb 3, 2025 positive
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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.”
Jason Van Gaal Feb 3, 2025 ▶ 16:27 He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show
Feb 3, 2025 positive
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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.”
Jason Van Gaal Feb 3, 2025 ▶ 15:16 He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show
Feb 3, 2025 positive
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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…”
Jason Van Gaal Feb 3, 2025 ▶ 8:50 He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show
Feb 3, 2025
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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.”
Jason Van Gaal Feb 3, 2025 ▶ 14:05 He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show
Feb 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Van Gaal: Capped Root Data Center cap table at three shareholders
“I said, I'm only going to do it if I have Three shareholders on my cap table. I don't want to deal with 50 shareholders.”
Jason Van Gaal Feb 3, 2025 ▶ 6:54 He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show
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