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Franceschetti: Eight Sleep raised prices in 2021 with minimal demand impact
“When we had to readjust our unit economics, we had to increase prices. We did it in 20, 21, and the impact was minimal.”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep Pod grew to hundreds of millions in four years
“The current product that is a hundred percent of our revenue launched literally Four years ago, 2020 19, right? So this thing went from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in four years, which in hardware is really rare.”
Eight Sleep requires all job candidates to complete homework projects
“Everyone has to do homework. Anyone who joins the company, they have to, we give them a project. They need to work on that at home and they will present to a panel. I don't care if you are the senior executive and you are the CFO of Amazon. If you want to join…”
Franceschetti: Sleeping at a static 68 degrees all night is wrong
“You hear a lot of people say, oh, you should sleep at 68 degrees. That is wrong. And the reason why it's wrong is 68 degrees might work, I don't know, in the first part of the night, but not in the second part of the night. Your body temperature changes during…”
Franceschetti: Chinese consumers buy through super-apps, not traditional websites
“Chinese don't buy on websites. There is no e-commerce as we know it. They only buy on their super apps. So on WeChat, Red Note, and Equivalent.”
Franceschetti: Almost everyone requires seven to nine hours of sleep
“A rule of thumb is between seven and nine hours for everyone, except very, very few people that have a genetic modification and can sleep only three, four hours.”
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 …”
Franceschetti: Alcohol is the single most impactful disrupter of sleep
“So the most impactful thing of everything is alcohol. Alcohol is massively, is gonna disrupt your sleep massively.”
Franceschetti: Consuming alcohol typically reduces sleep quality by 20%
“Usually, you lose probably somewhere around 20% sleep quality with alcohol.”
Franceschetti: Human body temperature follows a U-curve during sleep
“The temperature drops at the beginning of the night. It's like a U-curve. It drops at the beginning of the night, so immediately as you fall asleep, it goes down, and then 2:03 hours before you wake up, the body temperature rises, and so your body is preparing…”
Franceschetti: The 'pre-parade' quarterly goal-setting framework comes from Sequoia
“Yeah, it comes from Sequoia, the pre-parade, So, substantially, you celebrate the quarter. This quarter will be successful. This next quarter will be successful if. And you write it down. And then at the, when the quarter ends, you see the pre-parade, and you …”