Matteo Franceschetti
79 statements across 3 episodes · 22 bullish · 11 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2020 by Matteo Franceschetti · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2021 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- 20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
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Jun 1, 2020 negative
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep never promotes ICs to manager without prior squad leadership
“We don't make anyone a manager unless they already led a bunch of squads successfully. So my step is you will never become manager immediately, right? Going from IC to manager. You need to be a manager before you are formally a manager.”
Nov 20, 2023
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Nov 20, 2023 positive
Franceschetti: 90% of board meeting value comes from deck preparation
“The board deck, the biggest value of doing a really good board deck is not for my board, it's for me. It pushes me to think about creating a story of why this quarter was so good. What were the reasons? What really happened, right? Preparing for questions. 90%…”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Long-term consistency matters more than daily perfection
“You shouldn't be perfect every day. This is something I learned from a video of Tom Brady, but what you want is the consistency. It's less about cheating one day or another day, but if you zoom out and you look at how you manage your things, are you consistent…”
Nov 20, 2023
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Nov 20, 2023 bullish
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Franceschetti: Big-company executives default to quality over startup speed
“The key usually with senior executives where You really need to push them because, in particular, if they come from big companies, they are more skewed towards quality and reliability, while instead you want to be bold and just ship something, 80%, take the ri…”
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep mattress sales generate single-digit percentage of revenue
“So essentially, all our business is just the cover. We don't sell the mattress. If you go on our website, there is just the pod cover. You can add as an accessory, the foam part, which is the mattress. But you're talking about single digit percentage of our re…”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Lack of clarity stems from undeveloped thoughts and insufficient data
“Because they didn't think enough. They believe, they know, they believe they have a thought, but they didn't develop it properly, and they don't have enough data to support it, so they're confused. At the end of the day, the opposite of clarity of thinking is …”
Nov 20, 2023 positive
Franceschetti: Paul Graham and Keith Rabois excel at explaining complex ideas simply
“You see people like Paul Graham or Keith or Boyce, right? They are some of the greatest at expressing a very complicated concept with few words in something that I call it the grammar rule by something that my grandma could understand.”
Nov 20, 2023 positive
Nov 20, 2023 positive
Franceschetti: Thermal contrast therapy before bed meaningfully improves sleep quality
“Playing with your own body temperature before bed is is really impactful. And so let's say you're in a hotel or you have a larger home and you can have a sauna and an ice bath. If you do that before going to bed, it's gonna help you sleep better, meaningfully,…”
Nov 20, 2023
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Franceschetti: Startups overthink pricing changes and overestimate their brand reach
“A hundred percent disagree. I think we overthink because the whole point is you're a startup. How many people really know your brand? Even if you're big, if you're growing well, you know, you're not Apple, right? And so don't fool yourself thinking that you ar…”
Nov 20, 2023
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Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: A company's project capacity equals its number of 'barrel' leaders
“Output usually is a function of how many barrels you have. Barrels are people in your company that can get everything done from zero to completion, right? And you have barrels and ammunition. Barrels can lead anything from zero to completion. Ammunition suppor…”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Nov 20, 2023 positive
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: CEOs must retain control over high-impact decisions that can kill the company
“If this is a thing that can kill the company and has, I don't know, a legal background, I used to be a lawyer, I'm not gonna delegate the thing, right? And probably if it can kill the company, I'm not gonna delegate that thing, right? I wanna be very, very inv…”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Rigid bi-weekly goals kill startup agility
“The biggest thing is what I told them is they need to stop being too rigid on Bi-weekly or monthly goals, because if they're too rigid on that, when things happen and in a startup things happen every day, they are not agile enough to fix them.”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023 negative
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Nov 20, 2023 positive
Franceschetti: Decision proposals must present multiple options ranked by impact and effort
“I never like to see one option. I want to see multiple options, and you tell me why we are not pursuing the others, and we are pursuing this. I want a picture, a portfolio, and then we pick one based on impact and effort.”
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Franceschetti: Big tech execs lack the pirate mindset startups require
“If they come from very large companies, the requirements compared to a startup are very different. We are pirates. They are the Navy, right? These people need to be able to launch a new product in two days, just because they want to test it and be fine with th…”
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Franceschetti: Growth-at-all-costs execs fail in CAC-efficient startups
“If you find people that were able to scale a business from a hundred million to a billion, but at the time where it was growth at all costs, and they join your company is designed around CAC efficiency, it will be really hard for them, right? They have already…”
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Avoid late-day exercise to allow body temperature recovery before sleep
“But so you don't want to do exercise or it's not recommended to do exercise in the second part of the day because you accelerate your heart rate. You accelerate your body temperature, right? So you create a bunch of changes inside your body, and then your body…”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Franceschetti: Multiple candidate RIFs reflect poor company selection judgment
“I think even though you want to see a pattern, I see sometimes people that have been part of three RIFs. But you know what you need to think there is, let's say there is a RIF after a year, or even six months, sometimes you see it, and you see this happening m…”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023 bullish
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Nov 20, 2023 positive
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Franceschetti: Hot showers trigger core body temperature drops that prepare for sleep
“The way it creates is it starts warming up your body, then your body needs to dissipate the heat from the bathtub, and so the core body temperature goes down, so it's actually counterintuitive, and that is when your body prepares for sleep, because the second …”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Writing is the best way to build clarity of thinking
“The best way to develop clarity of thinking is writing, right? You need to write, because once you start writing your thoughts, you understand there are many things that are not clear, or that You still don't know you didn't develop.”
Nov 20, 2023 positive
Nov 20, 2023 bullish
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Franceschetti: Executives fail if direct reports do not know their performance rating
“If I call person X that reports to you, do they know if you rate them incredibly good, good, or meh? Yes or no? And if the answer is, I don't know, then you're doing a poor job as an executive. The most important thing is people should always know what you thi…”
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
Franceschetti: Stop drinking coffee at least eight hours before bedtime
“In general, the rule of thumb is you shouldn't because I, it takes around eight hours For the coffee to really leave your body, right? So usually I don't have a lot of coffee but if you have coffee, you should stop drinking coffee at least eight hours before b…”
Sep 12, 2026 negative
Franceschetti: Candidates cross-evaluating Anthropic and Eight Sleep are a red flag
“When people, sometimes it's still happening today that sometimes people say, oh, I'm at the final stage with Anthropic and innate sleep, and to me, that is a really bad red flag, Not even for the salary, but it means you're confused. There is no way that these…”
Sep 12, 2026 bullish
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Sep 12, 2026 positive
Franceschetti: Angel investing gives founders valuable operational market intelligence via updates
“The amount of learnings that you get from being an investor is insane, because it's essentially you build your own intelligence. As you receive investor updates, you understand how the market is moving. What are the valuations? What are the multiples? What kin…”
Sep 12, 2026 neutral
Franceschetti reveals Eight Sleep's two strict rules for athlete partnerships
“Well, there's two conditions for any deal now. First, they need to be, to use the product. If they already use it, they bought it on their own, perfect, now we can talk about not doing a deal. If not, they need to try it, and then we want to hear the feedback.…”
Sep 12, 2026 positive
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep Retained Hardware Lead Against 3x Competing RSU Offer
“He, the company was paying him way more giving him RSUs, so liquid stocks, plus paying him probably three X more, but he loves so much what we do, how we work, And what we want to build that at the end decided to stay”
Sep 12, 2026 positive
Sep 12, 2026 positive
Franceschetti: Promoting senior leaders requires buy-in from their families
“And so here is not just you committing to this life. If I give you the job, I expect you or I would like you that everything equal, you stay with us for the next two, three, four years, right? Otherwise I'm not going to bet on you. So go and talk to your wife.…”
Sep 12, 2026 neutral
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Sep 12, 2026 positive
Franceschetti: Keith Rabois and Delian Asparouhov did not realize Eight Sleep co-founders were married
“To the point where I think Delian and Keith, when they invested for the first year, they, I, I'm not sure that they were not even, they didn't even know we were married. Obviously, you disclose it when you do a round, so it has been disclosed in every round, b…”
Sep 12, 2026
Sep 12, 2026 positive
Franceschetti: Startup joiners should seek 100x to 1,000x equity upside
“I think people that join a startup, they should be driven, and it's important that they are motivated by, you know, potential financial success, and I agree, but that success will come by, you know, increasing the equity value from X to X. That is also why, to…”
Sep 12, 2026
Sep 12, 2026 negative
Franceschetti: 95% of health value comes from basics, not supplements
“Probably in health in general, I think really 95% of the value is just to be consistent and do the right things without going too crazy in terms of I don't know, products that you can take and supplements and all that. If you just have a very balanced life in …”