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Ricardo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
296 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

So I started noticing this repeatable pattern that I figured you can build services around this, right?

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

You know, something that grows with you and kind of, you know, matches the phase that you're in.

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

It also happens that I'm Portuguese.

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

My wife is Swedish.

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

So we're, you know, similar culture, but different languages.

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

And so I realized, you know, there's a lot of people out there that we could create content that will be hard to find in stores.

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

Right.

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

But to your question about if I'm looking to take that market, it's actually still a growing segment.

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

It's actually one of the ones in books that continues to grow in part because parents want to get kids away from tablets and, you know, and digital formats, particularly at bedtime.

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

But that's kind of how I saw an opportunity to use that as an entry market.

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

But also one that is filled with what I'll describe as non-tech players.

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

As you can imagine, there's a lot of investment in video and other formats.

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

You saw Sora come out with a generative AI video.

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

I have no interest in playing in a market that has very diluting margins because of these extremely overly well-funded players bringing the cost either to zero.

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

No, we're post-revenue, so we're selling.

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

We've done it in a very iterative manner, right?

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

So we basically wanted to get to market as soon as possible with a prototype, right?

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

Which catches a segment of it.

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

The way I try to explain to people is that you can imagine that there's people that literally just want to, you know, sit in front of the TV or something, just watch, be something fat to them.

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

And there's people that have a lot of agency, they want to create their own stuff, you know, and they'll go to trouble of doing it.