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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 mentioned, I founded a snack company where I was trying to do personalized nutrition for people with a body scanner, which is actually a company by Daniel Ek as well of Spotify.

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

We're almost

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

doing the same thing in the reverse manner.

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

You can think of healthcare as an artisan good, right?

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

You sit there and there's a doctor across from you doing, performing a service for you one-on-one.

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

And with Neko Health, we are trying to scale it right at mass, do a good service, a personalized service at scale.

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

And so Dream Stories is kind of a connection of these things and trying to do that for content.

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

Essentially, because when, as you mentioned, I started the company in 2023, this was around the times you started seeing stuff like Sable Diffusion come out, you know, in mid-journey and so forth with the image stuff.

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

And when I saw it, to be honest, I had this moment, oh shit, this is the moment where these things actually become possible.

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

Because in the meantime, you've seen stuff like Suno come up, you know, the music, generative music stuff.

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

S-U-N-O.

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

Yes.

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

There's stuff like Suno.

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

There's a few other models out there that let you create personalized music, if you will.

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

I actually think this is more interesting for our use cases other than music.

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

And that's kind of, we built the company around the experimentation around those contents, right?

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

And so we decided to start with the family content, particularly children's books, you know, as a first market.

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

But essentially, we're building the real core of what we're building is the platform that allows you to

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

take a consumer that is not technical, right, and give them the ability to create and basically create content for self-consumption, right, of their own family.

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

Yeah, so it's not a coincidence that, you know, things lined up as I looked at the behavior at home with my own child.