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Ricardo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
280 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

As you saw, you saw some on the funnel there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

They're actually a plugin we use that we're very, very happy with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

It's also that sometimes you deal with companies that...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

that you can just tell that they, you know, they really go the extra mile.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

They mean business in a way, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

And it's hard to describe, but if you set up something with them, you're kind of going to understand that, you know, they're competent, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

I don't know if you're, I'm sure everyone at some point dealt with just companies that you just, oh, shit, this guy is just so bad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

Looks is like I'm just very, very happy with them and impressed with overall their funnels, their setup, their level of polish.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

It just seems like they care, you know?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

It's, yeah, it honestly really depends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

I think this month, yes, we're in the six figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

We're, you know, we're kind of changing it often, you know, oftentimes like we end up changing it back and forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

No, I mean, again, if you make the economics work, you kind of need that, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

I don't want to think there's such a thing as free lunch, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

So I'm not going to tell you there's a golden pot here, you should come eat it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

But it does take a lot of work to build this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

So yes, I did put some money, I did raise a little bit of money, not a lot externally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

But I'm essentially building an AI content startup, usually that's extremely capital intensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

And the difference with me is that I chose to go a route where instead of giving people essentially shit for free that I have to subsidize, let me come up with, from day one, a model that I can monetize it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

So while in a sense, I'm building in a more conservative manner, if you think about it, because it also brings a lot of headaches because I'm constantly having to balance the long-term vision of what we're building with the short-term sort of economics.