Franceschetti: Visiting CEOs take more founder meetings in Miami than SF
Matteo Franceschetti · How to Build Hype with Matteo Franceschetti | Where It Happens · Feb 3, 2022 · at 44:58
Matteo Franceschetti, CEO of Eight Sleep, explains the network benefits of basing himself in Miami during winter visiting season.
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“These people, if you were flying to San Francisco, some of these big guys, they would never meet you because they're super busy, but when they come to Miami, then they want to meet as many people as possible, and so you have the chance to meet them, and so there are CEOs of public companies that came here, they are sleeping on the pod, and so maybe they ping me and say, oh, Matteo, I'm in Miami, and I had the chance to meet them, which would have never happened”
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