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Matteo Franceschetti

Co-founder & CEO, Eight Sleep

Search every verified Matteo Franceschetti interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Matteo Franceschetti, co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, discussed the company's operations and his views on technology in a September 2026 podcast appearance. He stated that Eight Sleep's engineers stopped writing code about a year ago, with hundreds of AI engineers now performing that work, which he said enables the company to scale across 35 countries, including China and Europe, with a small team. He also commented on the hardware industry, saying that Chinese manufacturers and automakers should pivot to building humanoid robots, which he described as a trillion-dollar market opportunity comparable to cars in the 1960s. In the interview, Franceschetti also touched on business practices and company performance. He said that Eight Sleep generates 40% of its revenue through word of mouth and that its revenue per employee is higher than Apple's. He expressed skepticism about companies pursuing both entropic and Eight Sleep products, calling it a red flag, and noted that undisclosed top tennis players and approximately 80% of Formula 1 drivers use the product, though those relationships are confidential. He also shared personal reflections, including admiration for people who can dine alone without a phone, and mentioned that he does not drink alcohol.

Recent appearances

  • Eight Sleep Sells a $1,999 Mattress Cover. Beds Have Nothing to Do With Its Business

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 Behind the Brand

    Eight Sleep Sells a $1,999 Mattress Cover. Beds Have Nothing to Do With Its Business The $1.5 billion company employs no foam experts and makes no mattresses. CEO Matteo Franceschetti explains what Eight Sleep sells, and what you pay for when you choose the brand over dozens of rivals. Every afternoon during the 2026 Tour de France, a small crew from Eight Sleep raced the riders of UAE Team Emirates XRG to the next hotel. The crew, which the company calls the Night Shift, carried eight Pods into eight rooms, calibrated each one, and set the temperature before the riders walked in. The next…

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  • E252｜硅谷睡眠外挂：富人的玩具，还是预防医疗的入口？｜对话Eight Sleep创始人

    September 23, 2026 · 📺 硅谷101播客

    【本期节目由Eight Sleep赞助播出】 在这个健康意识崛起的时代，我们越来越愿意花大价钱管理自己的身体。睡眠，就是其中最重要的方面之一。 与手表、戒指等可穿戴设备不同，Eight Sleep的产品是一张能够自动控温的智能床套。马斯克、扎克伯格、Bryan Johnson、Sam Altman，都是它的用户。多名职业运动员，也习惯带着它去比赛。这张售价约两万元的智能床套，究竟替我们做了什么？ 这期播客，我们邀请了Eight Sleep的两位创始人，Matteo Franceschetti和Alex Zatarain，聊聊睡眠科技和文化。 他们说，现代人已经熟悉了各项睡眠指标，例如深度睡眠、REM、HRV。但Eight Sleep想要更进一步：在人们熟睡时，根据身体的变化，自动调整床面温度、床体高度，让技术在你毫无知觉的时候工作。 这张床套背后，也是一家消费硬件公司十多年的摸索。从拆开电热毯做原型机，到众筹卖爆却发现卖一台亏一台；从搬到中国学习制造，到反复经历现金流危机，创始人踩了很多坑，才慢慢探索出令人满意的产品形态。 今年4月，Eight Sleep进入中国。消费竞争激烈的中国市场，反而是他们增长最快的一个。一张床套卖两万人民币，Eight Sleep如何解释自己的定价？进入全球35个国家，这家公司从上百万用户身上学到了什么？ 我们也聊到伴侣之间的温差、孕期与产后的睡眠变化…

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  • Eight Sleep CEO: How AI Runs the Company | “Our Engineers Stopped Coding a Year Ago”

    September 12, 2026 · 📺 20VC with Harry Stebbings

    Matteo Franceschetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep. As the leader of one of the most cutting-edge sleep fitness companies, he holds multiple patents in tech and health and is a Member of the Forbes Technology Council. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:34 - Why Hiring Is Back to 2021 Levels of Insanity 03:10 - Why Every Founder Should Angel Invest 04:10 - What VCs Get Wrong About Hardware 04:44 - How Eight Sleep Gets 40% of Revenue From Word of Mouth 05:12 - How Eight Sleep Finally Made TikTok Work 06:34 - Why You Cannot Trust Meta’s Attrib…

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  • Eight Sleep Co-Founder & CEO: Matteo Franceschetti – Sleep Optimisation & A Billion Hours of Data

    July 28, 2026 · 📺 The Gstaad Guy Podcast

    The Gstaad Guy sits down with Matteo Franceschetti, co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, the company that has quietly become one of the most powerful sleep labs in the world, to explore what happens when Silicon Valley obsession meets the most underinvested area of human health. From his early days as a fitness-obsessed entrepreneur to building a medical-grade platform trusted by everyone from elite athletes to Formula One drivers, Matteo reflects on the vision, data, and relentless focus on performance that made Eight Sleep impossible to ignore. The conversation gets into the science of temper…

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  • 346. Building an AI Sleep Butler with Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder & CEO of Eight Sleep

    July 06, 2026 · 📺 Fitt Insider

    Today, I'm joined by Matteo Franceschetti, co-founder & CEO of Eight Sleep. Scaling its AI-powered, temperature-regulating mattress across 35 countries, the sleep optimization company is tapping the world’s largest sleep dataset to pursue predictive health and early disease detection. In this episode, we discuss the shift from sleep tracking to sleep intervention. We also cover: • Building a data-led operating system • Investing in women's health • Mattress as medical device Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe Follow…

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  • New Apple Products, Jared Isaacman Joins, Anthropic's Strategy, Korean Stock Market Crash

    March 04, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    05:37 New Apple Products 13:33 How is Apple Unaffected by AI Costs? 38:53 Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Deal 42:54 Anthropic's Strategy 50:23 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 01:05:45 Dean Ball on AI regulation, oversight, and government–AI company dynamics 01:34:57 Scott Kupor & Jared Isaacman on venture capital and private spaceflight 01:52:11 Adam Bry on Skydio and autonomous drones in law enforcement 02:11:27 Matteo Franceschetti on Eight Sleep’s expansion and sleep tech 02:21:37 Dillon Rolnick on Nous Research and open-source AI agents 02:30:01 𝕏 Timeline Reactions TBPN.com is made possible by: Ramp -…

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  • Inside Eight Sleep | CEO Matteo Franceschetti

    November 25, 2025 · 📺 The Peel with Turner Novak

    Matteo Franceschetti is the Co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep. Eight Sleep created one of the original breakout consumer health products in 2014, quietly building a business that’s raised over $300 million dollars and was reportedly free cash flow positive in the first half of 2025. But things weren’t always easy, and Matteo shares the challenges of starting a hardware company, why hardware has stronger moats, and the fundraising mindset he adopted that eventually got Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund to invest. We also get into the importance of sleep, how the company’s Sleep Butler uses A…

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  • Eight Sleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti on sleep optimization, AI implementation and growth outlook

    August 19, 2025 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Matteo Franceschetti, Eight Sleep co-founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the implementing AI into its products, getting FDA approval to diagnose and mitigate sleep apnea, long-term growth outlook, and more.

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  • Matteo Franceschetti CEO and Co-Founder of Eight Sleep | CEO's You Should Know

    June 26, 2025 · 📺 CEOs You Should Know

    Matteo Franceschetti CEO and Co-Founder of Eight Sleep | CEO's You Should Know.

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  • Every CEO sleeps on his mattress 🛏️ 8Sleep

    January 14, 2025 · 📺 Marcello Ascani

    I had a chance to interview Matteo Franceschetti, the founder of 8 Sleep! Passed by YCombinator is a unique company that turns over hundreds of millions of dollars and investors include many silicon valley legends. https://www.eightsleep.com/eu/ Follow me on instagram   / marcelloascani   Business proposals [email protected] Want to grow on youtube? Sign up for my newsletter https://tubemastery.marcelloascani.co... Editing by Seequence Studio Music by Tom Fox Chapters: 00:00 Matteo Franceschetti and Eight Sleep 01:15 Young Age 03:47 University and Imago 6:58 Internship in America 0…

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  • How Eight Sleep Grew from $0 to $500 Million by Improving Your Sleep - Matteo Franceschetti

    November 18, 2024 · 📺 Made IT Podcast

    What do Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? Aside from billions in their bank accounts, they sleep on an Eight Sleep mattress topper. This week, we're talking consumer hardware with our guest Matteo Franceschetti, CEO and co-founder of Eight Sleep, a smart mattress brand. Their Pod is a mattress topper that sits on top of your mattress and features sensors that track your sleep with highly precise metrics and features that optimize your sleep, such as heating and cooling the mattress. Eight Sleep has been hugely successful and is used by countless professional athletes, including te…

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  • The Future of Sleep Fitness with Matteo Franceschetti of Eight Sleep

    June 24, 2024 · 📺 Village Global

    Matteo Franceschetti (@m_franceschetti), founder and CEO at Eight Sleep, joins Erik on this episode to discuss: The differences between deep, light, and REM sleep, and how to "compress sleep" so that it takes up less time. The new wave of predictive health and how Eight Sleep fits into it. His thoughts on the book Why We Sleep. The importance of temperature and how it affects sleep. Where he would be investing if he was running a fund focused on the category. How they think about what to build next. Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podc…

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Notable quotes

“We are moving towards what internally we call eight medical and so how can we pursue our medical mission? How can we help millions of people to really extend their life or at least maybe even save their life? One of the first step will be through sleep apnea. Step one of a journey that hopefully will last many decades and we have a technology that is able to detect if you have sleep apnea while you're asleep sleeping”

“I think all the Chinese manufacturers, they will become robotic companies. I think all these automakers should transform themselves and start building humanoids because the humanoid will be what cars were in the 60s. If they don't do that, they will not lose only cars. They will lose also the humanoid market which is trillions of dollars.”

“We can break it down into pieces. One, the pod, the current technology is becoming a medical grade device as we speak. We already filed for FDA approval in the US. Sleep apnea would be a big focus, but even when you look at our data, particularly in terms of cardiovascular topics, we have an accuracy that is very comparable to the one of a medical grade EKG. And so, you can really trust our data in terms of heart rat”

“We filed for FDA approval both for detection and mitigation of sleep apnea. We invented a new technology that mitigates sleep apnea without you wearing anything. I think it could be a massive home run for the business. Obviously, we need to get to the finish line and prove it and get the FDA approval. But if that happens it would be a game changer for millions of people. You know 40% of people with sleep apnea they d”

“We just announced a new round. We raised $50 million, 1.5 billion. From Tether Investments. So it's the Tether company. They are doubling down on AI and health and have been friends with Paulo the CEO for a long time. He's a really big fan of us and very quickly he said okay how can I accelerate you guys even more? and we were able to close a deal very quickly. The best part is in between now and 2025, we raised twic”

“I always think of data in two buckets. Very right now with this AI wave, on one side, you want to have your own data as a company because you don't want to rely on external data, otherwise you don't have a moat and you will be commoditized soon. Then the second bucket is this data needs to be used in terms of intelligence for the benefit of the customer. And that's all that we do. So, we give back. Substantially, we ”

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