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Franceschetti: Miami tech in 2022 feels like San Francisco in 2015
“First, you know, the tech community right now in Miami, it's great, it seems to be in San Francisco in 2015, right?”
Franceschetti: Going to Bed Functions Like Going to the Gym
“So we always tell everyone that going to bed is like going to the gym. You're doing something for your body to recover, to stay fit, healthy.”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep uses athletes as aspirational symbols for everyday consumers
“It's not that we are for athletes. Athletes are just the maximum expression of the energy that we want to give to our, you know, a 100,200 thousand users. But every person is a user exactly like Nike, Nike.”
Franceschetti: 20% to 25% of Eight Sleep revenue is word of mouth
“Even if our product obviously it's kind of expensive, right? It starts at 1500 but 20, 25% of our revenue is word of mouth.”
Franceschetti: Dominating specific communities like Tech Twitter drives word-of-mouth growth
“And the other thing we did, we focus, we call it concentration, right? So, because it's not an impulsive purchase. And so what we do is we try to focus on specific communities and try to dominate the community. And that is kind of happening in tech where now i…”
Franceschetti: Visiting CEOs take more founder meetings in Miami than SF
“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 the…”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep signed CrossFit champion Justin Medeiros as brand athlete
“We just signed Justin, who is the number one CrossFitter in the world. He just won the CrossFit games I think in July.”
Franceschetti: The Pod accounts for 90% of Eight Sleep's current sales
“And the money was also used to build the pod, which is the current product, which is now the one that now is really 90% of our sales.”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep air-freights inventory to bypass Long Beach port delays
“Obviously, you know, the port in Long Beach right now is is not getting your units on time. More than anything, it's really hard to predict when you will get your units, and so you have to de-risk, and by de-risking, you fly in units, and that is super expensi…”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep's angel investors include the Collisons, Naval, and Pomp
“Another thing that worked really well for us was we raised money from a lot of individuals, operators that are extremely valuable. Now Patrick and John Collison, Naval Pomp”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep was rejected twice by Y Combinator before getting in
“We got rejected twice.”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep built a full bedroom in the YC interview hallway
“So we rent a truck with a bed and the cover, but part of the experience was also with lights and other stuff that, you know, the nest that you were having in your bedroom because it was an IoT connectivity. So we also bring nightstands, And the lights that go …”