Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia

Think Hollywood is gonna be the last industry to adopt any of these things. The idea of doing full length films, has that gone by the wayside as you found your market niche, or do you still imagine going in that? And I think what you will see AI generated entertainment is not in the cinemas. It's not on Netflix. And I kept asking, why don't you put an avatar on this that that would engage students more? And this is for, k through 12 because students are bored by text on a screen. They kept telling us the same thing. I know I'm creating all this content, and no one is reading it. And even if they do read it, they don't remember anything else. So I'm wasting my time. I need to create video and audio content. I think for kids, if you could go if you could personalize their education in two ways, interest based and with a celebrity or a person that they know, you're amazing. Right? Hey, Victor. It's great to meet you. As I mentioned a moment ago, I was an early, symesthesia. I have a trouble pronouncing the company name, and I have used it for years. But I'd like you to start by introducing yourself to listeners, give your background so far as it's relevant, and the story of how you came to start the company. Yeah. Sure. So, yeah. So I'm Victor, and I'm one of the cofounders and the CEO of Synthesia SVA. And, I I grew up in Copenhagen in Denmark. And, I think my path was founding company started in my my early, you know, childhood years. I love reading. I love computers. In my late teenage years, figured out I could make some money off my interest in computers. So I began making websites for local businesses, ecommerce stores, kind of small projects like that where I could make, you know, pretty good money for, like, a 17 year old. Yeah. I was pretty good at it. Started running their marketing and, you know, kind of did it for some years, but eventually kind of capped out in how intellectually interesting it could be to help my local tennis store sell more tennis rackets. So I went to the Danish startup ecosystem. I was there for three years. Found myself in, like, product and growth roles. I have a bachelor in computer science and, and and and business. But, honestly, I was I was never really there. I was more interested in building companies. After having worked at the Danish ecosystem for some years, I knew I wanted to build my own company. I also knew that I wasn't super interested in building accounting tools and bookkeeping tools and, like, use normal business process stuff. I've always loved science fiction. I love fringe ideas. I love the weird wonderful corners of, of of of the Internet and and what's happening in the world. And I wanted to …