#321 Working with Jeff Bezos

**David Senra** (0:00)
29 days from now, I am doing a live show in New York City on October 19th with Patrick Osanasi from Invest Like the Best. Some of the best interviews and conversations I've had have been on Patrick's show, Invest Like the Best. I just recorded a new episode with him. It is episode 343 You can find it on the Invest Like the Best feed. It is episode 343, David Senra in service of Founders. If you live in New York City or you're looking for an excuse to travel to New York City, highly recommend coming out to the show. It's guaranteed to be a fun and entertaining conversation. If you're interested in that, I will leave a link so you can grab your tickets. You can also get your tickets at founderspodcast.com. Second thing that I want to tell you about, you're about to listen to an episode full of great ideas from Jeff Bezos. One of my favorite things that I don't think I talk about in the episode that I heard Jeff Bezos say that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep was he was giving an interview and he said that he makes sure he gets eight hours of sleep a night. As a result, his mood, energy, and decision making is improved. And his point was that you get paid to make high quality decisions and you can't do that if you are sleeping terribly. The only thing that I have found that has improved my sleep has been getting an eight sleep. Eight sleep comes with a ton of useful and helpful features. The best feature, the one that's most important to me, is the ability to change the temperature of my bed, not only before, so I make it ice cold before I jump into bed, but it stays cold the entire night, so I wake up less. And because you control the temperature of your bed with your phone, my bed's cold before I get in it, so I fall asleep faster. In my opinion, that feature is worth 10 times the price. My wife and I were just at a wedding for a weekend away in Canada, and now we have the same ritual every time we come home, where you say the same thing, I cannot wait to get back to our eight sleep. There are very few no-brainer investments in life, but taking care of your sleep and getting an eight sleep is one of them. You can get $150 off on your eight sleep by going to eightsleep.com forward slash founders. Again, you get $150 off by going to eightsleep.com forward slash founders, and that link will be down below as well. And finally, I want to tell you about another product that several of my founder friends are using, and that is Vesto. You can check them out at vesto.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 you earn interest while it sits there. I have one founder friend who raised a bunch of venture capital, and 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 his money was just sitting in his bank account. If this sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend that you go to vesto.com and check out what they have to offer. I know the founder Ben. I've spent a bunch of time with him. If you schedule a demo, if you go to vesto.com and 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. Make sure that you tell him that David from Founders sent you. And with that, let's get into the genius mind of Jeff Bezos.
Not long after the launch, my boss Steve took me aside. He told me that he had an interesting meeting with Jeff, who made it very clear that setting and insisting on high standards was an essential part of Steve's job. To make his point, Jeff asked Steve if he had ever seen the movie The Aviator, the story of Howard Hughes, the business tycoon, aviator and film director.
Jeff described a scene in which Hughes played by Leonardo DiCaprio, visits one of his aircraft manufacturing facilities to check on the progress of his latest project, the Hughes H-1 Racer, which is a sleek single passenger plane designed to set new speed records.