He’s building an AI media empire
On the surface, it looks like Ricardo Vice Santos is selling AI-created books for your kids. But he’s aiming for something much bigger: a world where TV, movies, and every other media will be customized to you, using AI. He’s starting with children’s books because that’s what people will buy and what AI can do well today. This is the story of how he’s building DreamStories and how you can build a similar company.
Ricardo is the founder of DreamStories, a company creating AI-powered, personalized children’s books tailored to individual families. Previously, he worked in consumer media and was an early team member at Spotify, where he developed a deep understanding of long-tail content and personalization. Drawing on that experience, Ricardo is now building toward a future where books, videos, and even movies are generated uniquely for each person.
Andrew Warner: This founder is creating thousands of customized books using ai, but that’s just a start. He visualizes a world where movies, TV shows, every kind of media is gonna be customized to you, and he’s building a company that’s gonna do it. He’ll tell you how he’s doing it, and it’s gonna riff on an idea and a vision for how you can do it too.
Ricardo is the founder of Dream Stories, makers of personalized children’s books.
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Andrew Warner: presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. Ricardo, how many books have you created that are all AI generated? Would you say
Ricardo Vice Santos: O ma? Many. Right. We, uh, we, um, in, in a sense all of them are, I was gonna try to say how to answer the question.
You know, each one of them is unique, right? So that’s why it’s, it’s hard to, to to be precise. Um. But yeah, but we’ve had, uh, we’ve had,...
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