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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Building a Business on Sleep with Matteo Franceschetti

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Matteo has always been obsessed with performance. Athletic performance, business performance, and now sleep performance.

An athlete from a young age—he was a competitive ski racer in his native Italy and played tennis and raced cars on the European stage. Not surprisingly, sleepless nights were a way of life. It was his quest for more restorative sleep, in fact, that led him to quit his previous life and launch EightSleep, a New York-based company dedicated to fueling human potential through optimal sleep, and to turning the bed into a seamless health platform for improved health, performance, and longevity.

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1. Lack of sleep can affect your longevity and health.

2. When looking for funding, the key is having traction; it will make the process a lot easier.

3. The future of the sleep industry is that you will be able to sleep for 6 hours yet get more rest with the help of technology.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here with an audio master class on building a

0:08.9

business on sleep. And we'll be talking about how to actually build a business, not just

0:14.8

around sleep, but just around crowdfunding, overall funding, getting investors, and a

0:19.0

lot of great stuff along those lines. But we will also be talking about sleep as one

0:23.8

of the three pillars of health, the other two of course being nutrition and fitness.

0:28.8

Fire Nation, we have an amazing individual. The founder of 8 Sleep, his name is Mateo

0:35.6

Fran Chassette Tee, and I definitely did not pronounce that last name correctly, but he

0:39.5

gave me a pass on that. Mateo has always been obsessed with performance, athletic performance,

0:44.2

business performance, and now sleep performance. He was an athlete from a young age, and he

0:48.3

was a competitive ski racer in his native Italy, and he played tennis and race cars on the

0:52.4

European stage, and he's always been focused on winning and winning in record time. That

0:57.0

drive to succeed propellant from sports podiums to the top tier international league

1:00.8

world, and then starting to clean tech companies on two continents all before the age of

1:05.7

30, not surprisingly sleepless nights were a way of life. It was his quest to find a more

1:10.4

restorative sleep. In fact, I let him to quit his previous life and launch eight sleep,

1:14.6

a New York based company dedicated to fueling human potential through optimal sleep, and

1:19.1

returning the bed into a seamless health platform for improved health performance and longevity.

1:23.8

The path he took to becoming the CEO of eight sleep, however, is as circuitous as the

1:28.4

tracks he raced in his youth and fire nation. You better believe we have awesome stuff coming

1:33.4

up as soon as we think our sponsors. It's time to start sleeping longer and deeper,

1:39.7

so you wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day, get $150 off your purchase of the

1:46.7

pod by eight sleep when you visit eight sleep dot com slash fire today. That's e i g h t sleep dot com

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