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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?

No, that is actually an awesome question.

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

Obviously, I wouldn't do any of that stuff.

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

Probably Product Hunt is still there.

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

None of the rest.

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

We will have a completely different strategy today.

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

Actually, I would start three, six months before you start building the community, you start engaging them on what you're doing.

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

Right now, I think the big difference that you see with media and the relationship between tech and media, it's you want to build your own community, which is what we are doing today on Twitter.

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

So start six months before, build that community, you launch and the community will convert.

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

Yeah, that is the number one platform.

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

And then obviously, we have an email list of over 100,000 people and other platforms.

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

Yeah, so step one was really tracking without wearing anything and charging anything.

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

So a mattress cover that could be installed onto your mattress and track everything.

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

But we knew since day one that the game changer was dynamic temperature adjustment.

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

So heating and cooling your body while you sleep.

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

There is plenty of medical evidence proving that with that you can accelerate your sleep.

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

So you can fall asleep faster, you can get more deep sleep and more REM.

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

We just didn't have the money to build it at the beginning until when Cosla Ventures with Kithra Boys came in and they led our round.

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

No, so we did a seed round and a series A. The seed round was immediately after Y Combinator.

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

So after Demo Day, we were able to raise around $6 million.

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

Then there was an A for like 10.