The Magic Mattress That Fixes Your Sleep @Matteo Franceschetti (@eight_sleep)

Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

Welcome to The Quest Pod Season 2: Episode 25 with Matteo Franceschetti: the founder and CEO of Eight Sleep talks about sleep fitness, scaling hardware, and building at the intersection of tech and longevity.

Matteo Franceschetti is the CEO and co-founder of Eight Sleep, a smart mattress company focused on optimizing sleep quality, duration, and recovery through insights and analytics. The company has raised over $150 million since its inception in 2014.

In this episode, we discuss practical advice on improving health and longevity through optimizing sleep, the importance of prototyping your product, and the unique challenges of scaling a hardware company.

Matteo recounts the development of his intense competitive drive as a boy growing up in Italy, his pivot into startups coming from a career as a lawyer, the YC experience, learning to be an effective communicator and leader, and the laborious process of finding product-market fit.

0:00 Intro
0:55 From pro tennis to law
5:59 Becoming a founder in Italy and coming to the US
9:48 Starting Eight Sleep (‘sleep less, work more’)
12:21 Prototyping and going through Y-Combinator
18:20 Matteo’s near-death experiences
21:39 Co-founding with wife Alexandra
25:43 The Eight Sleep product explained
29:23 Top sleep hacks
38:51 What’s next after $150 million raised

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