{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Next New Thing","title":"He’s building an AI media empire","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3615,"description":"Episode highlights:\n[00:00:00] The vision: media customized to one person\n[00:02:15] Why revenue isn’t the point — yet\n[00:03:18] Seeing early personalization at Spotify\n[00:06:00] Why kids’ content felt broken\n[00:07:48] Making the child the hero of the story\n[00:08:42] The hardest problem: image consistency\n[00:11:24] Why scaling AI products is nothing like demos\n[00:14:06] Personalized media won’t replace broadcast — it adds new behavior\n[00:16:21] Why parents are the buyer, not the consumer\n[00:20:51] Bedtime as a repeatable ritual\n[00:23:42] Why Dream Stories is a service, not a novelty product\n[00:28:12] Distribution is the real bottleneck\n[00:32:15] Why repeat purchases beat subscriptions\n[00:39:00] From “pull” products to “push” experiences\n[00:45:00] Context and memory as the real moat\n[00:50:06] Learning directly from customers\n[00:54:09] Synthetic data and AI-generated avatars\n[00:59:06] Automating PR and support with AI\nIn this episode, Andrew Warner talks with Ricardo, founder of Dream Stories, a company using AI to create fully personalized children’s books where each child becomes the hero of their own story.\nRicardo shares how a simple idea — making a better bedtime story for his own son — turned into a scalable business with tens of thousands of unique characters created. But more importantly, he lays out a bold vision: a future where movies, TV shows, books, and media are customized for a single person, not the masses.\nThey dive deep into what it actually takes to build a consumer AI company beyond demos and hype — from image consistency problems and synthetic data, to distribution, paid acquisition, and turning one-time novelty purchases into repeat behavior.\nThis is a rare, honest look at where AI-generated media is headed — and what founders should really be building right now.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NyHHieTlmHDUHZCr0-GqsmgcxwwW_QdWcFQKUIrpKnI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZGY1/YWFlNGYzMTA0ZWY1/ZmRlNGY0NDIxMjA0/ZDQyYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}