#320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2

**David Senra** (0:00)
I read something Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. He said that he makes sure he gets eight hours of sleep a night, and as a result, his mood, energy, and decision making is improved. And the point that he was making was that as a founder, you get paid for making a small number of high quality decisions, and you can't do that if you're sleeping terribly. The only thing that I've ever found that has actually improved my sleep has been an 8 Sleep. 8 Sleep has this thing on their website that I think is actually a really good idea. It's just a collection, it's called The Wall of Love. It's just a collection of people talking about how much they love their 8 Sleep. And there's a ton of founders on there. Elon Musk is talking about the fact that he loves his 8 Sleep. Mark Zuckerberg, these people aren't getting paid to say this, right? Mark Zuckerberg is talking about the fact that he loves his 8 Sleep. Paul Graham talked about the fact that he ordered one.
I love my 8 Sleep. I've heard from a ton of other founders that listen to this podcast that ordered 8 Sleep because of the ads on this podcast. And now, let me give you an example. My friend Rick ordered one, and now he travels a lot for work. And you know a product is good when you miss, like you notice its absence. And so 8 Sleep in the app, it has something where, if you're not there, you don't want your 8 Sleep turning on, so you have this thing called away mode. And so now when Rick is coming back, he'll send me either a screenshot or a screen recording of him turning his 8 Sleep from away mode back to being home and being excited that he's going to be reunited with his mattress. That is not normal. The thing I love, this is the best feature. There's a ton of other features. The app has great features. The best thing I love is the ability to control the temperature. I keep my 8 Sleep ice cold. I make sure it's cold before I get into bed. I'm telling you, this helps me sleep, go to sleep faster and wake up less during the night. And just like my friend Rick, when I travel, I notice its absence. I miss it. And so the founder of 8 Sleep, Mateo, listens to the podcast. He's been a huge supporter and he's giving listeners $150 off. If you want to try your own, go to 8sleep.com forward slash founders, that is 8sleep.com forward slash founders, get $150 off. I will leave the link down below as well. I want to tell you about another product that several of my founder friends are also using and that is Vesto. You can check them out at getvesto.com. Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your business's idle cash. Vesto helps businesses of all sizes invest their cash in US treasuries. When your business owns treasuries, that cash is backed by the US government and it earns interest while it sits there. I have one founder friend who raised a bunch of venture capital money, and so he uses Vesto as a way to extend his runway. I have another founder friend who bootstrapped his company, and he uses Vesto to get a better rate of return than if that money was just sitting in his bank account. If this sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend you go to Vesto, getvesto.com, check out what they have to offer. I actually know the founder, Ben. I've spent a bunch of time with him. If you schedule a demo, so you go to getvesto.com, schedule a demo, you actually speak directly to the founder, Ben. I think he's incredibly impressive. And I think if you speak to him, you'll be impressed too. When you talk to Ben, make sure you tell him that David from Founders sent you. And one more thing before we jump into this episode, I was just interviewed for the second time on Invest Like the Best. It is episode 343 I will leave a link down below, but I'm assuming that if you're listening to this, you're already following Invest Like the Best in your favorite podcast player. If not, please do so. Listen to episode 343 It's David Senra in the service of Founders. Had a lot of good feedback. People really enjoyed it. You listen to it. Tell me if you think I did a good job. I really do appreciate these opportunities to share all the crazy things that I've learned from reading 300 plus biographies and doing it in an interview style is actually really fun and special. And if you listen, I hope you learn something new. So that's Invest Like the Best, episode 343, David Senra in service of Founders.