#159 Matteo Franceschetti: Learning english at 24, leaving law to solve sleep, the key traits of a world-class hardware company, raising funding from Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois!

The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

Matteo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, the sleep fitness company. Eight Sleep developed a proprietary technology which is redesigning sleep by developing cutting-edge AI and machine learning models to track bio signals during the night and optimising body recovery and rest while asleep. The end goal of the Pod is to compress sleep and scan your body while asleep to monitor your health.

Eight Sleep is currently used by pro athletes and top performers across multiple industries and was recognised as one of TIME’s “Best Inventions” in 2018 and 2019, was named one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies” in 2018, and has raised over $150M in funding from leading investors, including Founders Fund, Softbank, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Valor Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant, and Patrick Collison.

Matteo was born in Ferrara in Italy and now lives in the US, splitting his time between New York and Miami.

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