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Matteo Franceschetti

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
220 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

technology that require a million of dollars to be developed than some of the best machine learning engineers in the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

No, actually, no, it was different because it was really Max and I to start the company at the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

And then we brought in other two co-founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

And so we started 50-50, Max and I, but then we gave a piece of equity to the other two co-founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

Then the fourth co-founder, it didn't work out with him after a couple of years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

So he has been still very effective for a couple of years with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

But then he left.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

and that freed up some equity for the third co-founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

And the units, then it kept coming even after.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

So we saw something like 8,000 units in pre-orders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

It was massive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

Bigger than probably what we could handle at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

But yeah, it was incredible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

I still remember that night when we got the first order, we were still testing and we see an order coming in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

from a person with a French name.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

And so we started asking, but it was you testing with this name?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

And the other said, no, it was not me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

It was not me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?

And it was the first customer.