What I learned from reading The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike.
You might be able to hear this in my voice in the episode that you're about to listen to, but I just got over either Covid or the flu.
I'd been traveling way too much and I've been sleeping terribly and it finally caught up to me.
I've been home now for almost a week and I feel way better.
And one thing that actually helped me feel a lot better is my eight sleep.
Before I had an eight sleep, I never had the ability to change the temperature of my bed before and I had no idea how much that affects and improves the quality of my sleep.
I keep my eight sleep ice cold.
It's cold before I even get into bed.
This helps me fall asleep faster and wake up less during the night.
And when I had this fever and these flu like symptoms, I kept it even colder and it actually helped me recover from this sickness faster than if I didn't have innate sleep.
I had been feeling terribly for a day or two before I got back home and I was forced to sleep in a hotel bed that I cannot make cool and I slept terribly.
It was impossible for me not to notice my eight sleeps absence, and I think that's a definition of a great product.
A great product is when you notice its absence.
There's a lot of founders that have actually spoken publicly about their love for eight sleep.
People like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have both tweeted and posted publicly about the fact that they own and use and enjoy an eight sleep mattress.
I know Mateo, who is the founder of eight Sleep, spent a bunch of time with them.
We live in the same city.
He listens to founders.
I know he has a complete dedication to the constant improvement of his product.
I believe that there are very few no brainer investments in life and eight sleep is one of them.
Normally when you go to eight sleep.com founders, you actually get $150 off.