He’s building an AI media empire

Episode highlights:[00:00:00] The vision: media customized to one person[00:02:15] Why revenue isn’t the point — yet[00:03:18] Seeing early personalization at Spotify[00:06:00] Why kids’ content felt broken[00:07:48] Making the child the hero of the story[00:08:42] The hardest problem: image consistency[00:11:24] Why scaling AI products is nothing like demos[00:14:06] Personalized media won’t replace broadcast — it adds new behavior[00:16:21] Why parents are the buyer, not the consumer[00:20:51] Bedtime as a repeatable ritual[00:23:42] Why Dream Stories is a service, not a novelty product[00:28:12] Distribution is the real bottleneck[00:32:15] Why repeat purchases beat subscriptions[00:39:00] From “pull” products to “push” experiences[00:45:00] Context and memory as the real moat[00:50:06] Learning directly from customers[00:54:09] Synthetic data and AI-generated avatars[00:59:06] Automating PR and support with AIIn 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.Ricardo 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.They 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.This is a rare, honest look at where AI-generated media is headed — and what founders should really be building right now.