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She Wants to Build a "Super Playground" for the AI Era | A Conversation with Roi: Founder / CEO of Intermission --- The first time I met Roi, she had just returned from Burning Man and was sporting a deep tan. This former product lead at ByteDance and early employee at Musical.ly has a resume that would make most tech workers envious. But what struck me more was her restlessness — a constant urge to tear things down and rebuild them. In 2023, she founded Intermission, an AI-native content platform. The name itself is telling: "intermission," the break between acts. She believes we're living in the intermission between the old internet and whatever comes next. "Everyone's talking about AI replacing creators," she told me. "I think that's the wrong question. The real question is: what new forms of expression become possible when everyone has an AI co-pilot?" Her answer is what she calls a "super playground" — not a content consumption platform, but a space where users create, remix, and play with AI-generated characters and worlds. The aesthetic leans heavily into what she describes as "digital maximalism": neon gradients, glitch effects, characters that feel like they've stepped out of a Y2K fever dream. The product has attracted a
She Wants to Build a "Super Playground" for the AI Era | A Conversation with Roi: Founder / CEO of Intermission --- The first time I met Roi, she had just returned from Burning Man and was sporting a deep tan. This former product lead at ByteDance and early employee at Musical.ly has a resume that would make most tech workers envious. But what struck me more was her restlessness — a constant urge to tear things down and rebuild them. In 2023, she founded Intermission, an AI-native content platform. The name itself is telling: "intermission," the break between acts. She believes we're living in the intermission between the old internet and whatever comes next. "Everyone's talking about AI replacing creators," she told me. "I think that's the wrong question. The real question is: what new forms of expression become possible when everyone has an AI co-pilot?" Her answer is what she calls a "super playground" — not a content consumption platform, but a space where users create, remix, and play with AI-generated characters and worlds. The aesthetic leans heavily into what she describes as "digital maximalism": neon gradients, glitch effects, characters that feel like they've stepped out of a Y2K fever dream. The product has attracted a

She Wants to Build a "Super Playground" for the AI Era | A Conversation with Roi: Founder / CEO of Intermission --- The first time I met Roi, she had just returned from Burning Man and was sporting a deep tan. This former product lead at ByteDance and early employee at Musical.ly has a resume that would make most tech workers envious. But what struck me more was her restlessness — a constant urge to tear things down and rebuild them. In 2023, she founded Intermission, an AI-native content platform. The name itself is telling: "intermission," the break between acts. She believes we're living in the intermission between the old internet and whatever comes next. "Everyone's talking about AI replacing creators," she told me. "I think that's the wrong question. The real question is: what new forms of expression become possible when everyone has an AI co-pilot?" Her answer is what she calls a "super playground" — not a content consumption platform, but a space where users create, remix, and play with AI-generated characters and worlds. The aesthetic leans heavily into what she describes as "digital maximalism": neon gradients, glitch effects, characters that feel like they've stepped out of a Y2K fever dream. The product has attracted a

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