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Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-Large of Recode. You may know me as someone who looks forward to ignoring CES every year, but in my spare time I talk tech, and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Today in the red chair is Laura Haddock, the CEO of Sex Toys Startup called Laura Di Carlo. She got a lot of publicity late last year when the trade group that runs CES said it was going to give her company an innovation award at this year's show and then decided to rescind the award because oops, it was for a sex toy.

Laura, welcome to Recode Decode. I just do very-

I don't want to make this a comical thing because I do think a lot of technology innovation has happened in that industry, and it's often been ignored. It's always been at the forefront of internet and digital stuff.

And so I do want to talk, but I do know a lot about it. I wrote a lot about it in the early days of the internet and how it sort of was an important part, and it's also not an embarrassing part either, necessarily.

It sometimes can be lots of things to be embarrassing. Facebook leaving New York is embarrassing, things like that.

So let's talk a little bit about what happened. Let's talk about that, and want some history of your company too.

Why don't we start with some history of your company and what happened at CES? And I really truly hate going to CES and it's not doing so.

Anyway, yeah, I agreed.

Yeah, so I started the company back in October of 2017, and the idea had been with me for years before that.

In the span of a year and a half, we went from concept to product prototype in hand and more on our bridge to manufacturing.

And why did you decide to go into it? I want a little more background. What was the...

This has been an area that's been... there's lots of innovative companies in this area.

Yeah, well, I think a big part of it was I had this insane orgasm when I was about 28 years old.

And it was a blended orgasm and it literally landed me on the floor and I started the ceiling from it.

Okay. Innovation strikes anywhere.

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