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Matthew Schultz

Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, CLEANSPARK INC

Search every verified Matthew Schultz interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In March 2025, Schultz discussed a 20-year, $6.6 billion triple net lease with a high investment grade tenant, which he said would provide an average annual net operating income of $330 million. He acknowledged that the price per megawatt in the deal was below some recent comparable transactions, attributing this to CleanSpark's "pragmatic" approach and the "Bitcoin miner connotation" that he said has kept the company undervalued. Schultz described the company's business model as a "hybrid" and noted that the lease structure did not require credit wrappers or backstops, which he said carried no cost to the company. In July 2026, Schultz confirmed that the same tenant had executed an exclusivity letter of intent for an additional 885 megawatts of capacity in Texas. He stated that the first data hall from the Georgia lease is expected to be energized by Q4 2027, with the balance in early Q1 2028. Schultz also said the company's construction management partner has built for this tenant before, providing "certainty on execution."

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“The aspect on the instruments available to generate yield on Bitcoin is still very denovo, that is in its infancy. The mining business itself has matured a whole lot faster than the derivatives market. As we sit today as a public company, we have limited options in terms of what we can do. I'd love to say we're going to go out and get 4% return on our entire hodl balance, but right now there's not enough avenues to g”

“We are not idealistic about our Bitcoin balance. When you run a publicly traded company and you say we'll never sell another Bitcoin, well, Bitcoin was $69,000 in November of 2021 and then it went to $15,000 after that. To say that you're never going to do that is really idealistic. We see it kind of as a strategy. Optionality and flexibility should be synonymous with CleanSpark. We would consider selling it if Bitco”

“By investing in infrastructure, our risk goes down. If Bitcoin is under pressure and goes down, companies that are mining less efficiently are forced to unplug, which increases the hash rate that we already own. We can outpace a decline in Bitcoin price. Unless your name is Michael Saylor, when you lever up to buy Bitcoin and you add one Bitcoin to your balance sheet, your market cap increases by the value of one Bit”

“This is the only 0% coupon 100% effective 100% up that's been done. We structured this entirely different. We put a cap call into the transaction, but then we did a wall cross over three days, 40 interviews, one-on-one. The funds that came over the wall were under a very strict NDA, there was a no short provision, and so we priced it the way that we did. The market impact has been fairly neutral, whereas the vast maj”

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