Dorm mattresses are notoriously uncomfortable. This startup is hoping to change that.
As a college student transitioning from home life to dorm life, Steven Van Alen was jolted by a harsh reality of campus living -- the notoriously uncomfortable mattress.
"Students usually have no choice but to sleep on thin, sometimes used mattresses that are provided in their dorm rooms by the university," said Van Alen. He experienced it firsthand while staying in a dorm at California State University, Northridge, in 2016. "I watched my friends, classmates and myself suffer from lack of sleep due to substandard sleeping solutions," he said."Since you can't really easily change the mattress, an easy solution was a mattress topper.
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