Matteo Franceschetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep. As the leader of one of the most cutting-edge sleep fitness companies, he holds multiple patents in tech and health and is a Member of the Forbes Technology Council.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:34 – Why Hiring Is Back to 2021 Levels of Insanity
03:10 – Why Every Founder Should Angel Invest
04:10 – What VCs Get Wrong About Hardware
04:44 – How Eight Sleep Gets 40% of Revenue From Word of Mouth
05:12 – How Eight Sleep Finally Made TikTok Work
06:34 – Why You Cannot Trust Meta’s Attribution
08:06 – Why Founders Should Scale One Growth Channel at a Time
09:26 – Why Eight Sleep Optimizes for Profit From Day One
15:15 – How AI Runs a $100M Email Marketing Business With Zero Employees
18:17 – Eight Sleep Engineers Stopped Coding a Year Ago
19:17 – Will AI Spend Go From 5% to 50% of Engineering Budgets?
21:27 – Would You Buy Anthropic at IPO?
21:46 – Why AI Will Turn Companies Into Holding Companies
23:15 – Are Chinese Companies About to Crush European Industry?
25:10 – Why Humanoid Robots Could Be a Trillion-Dollar Market
26:45 – Are Frontier AI Models Moving Too Fast?
28:31 – What It Really Takes to Sell in China
32:19 – Why Timing Matters More Than Founders Think
35:54 – Silicon Valley Underestimates the Power of Brand
56:40 – Should Startups Match Anthropic-Level Compensation?
59:07 – Has Silicon Valley Become Too Money Obsessed?
01:02:09 – How Eight Sleep Runs With Just 160 Employees
01:02:40 – 250 Employees, $1BN Revenue
01:05:45 – Quick-fire Round
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