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Tracy Alloway

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1768 total appearances

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We have residential customers, we have commercial customers, we have industrial customers, we have municipal customers.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Everybody needs building products.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

If there's a building, it's made of building products.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And just to be clear on the nature of the business, they do installation within the insulation supply chain.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Where do they sit exactly?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Do they manufacture it or is it just distribution and installation?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

What do they do?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

They don't manufacture it.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

They buy it and then they either resell it at a higher price to a contractor or they actually install it.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

They sell it and install it and to various customers.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Okay, well, now I have a dumb question, but is there a quality differential when it comes to insulation?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Is there a particular type of insulation that a data center would need versus your run-of-the-mill house?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

There's not too many different types of insulation, but there are different types.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And the big manufacturers are ones like Owens Corning or John Mansville or Knauf is another big one.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So, you know, big companies and very high quality stuff.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So insulation has been around for a long time, but technology makes it better and better every decade.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Where's it made, insulation?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

It's mostly made in the United States.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Is it?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Yeah.