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Lora Haddock

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first: 2019-02-27
most recent: 2019-02-27
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“Women having sex. I know the guys are our intent to actually truly create something for everyone. Right. And that's really a big part of our mission is the inclusivity. Our values as a company, our respect and empowerment and integrity. And that spans gender, that spans preference, that spans color. And that's incredibly important to us.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. So we will be releasing that in quarter three, so end of fall. And we've got a couple of products on the roadmap. Actually, my director of marketing Sarah Brown likes to call it an interstate roadmap. And so we've got products for partner play. We've got a couple of lifestyle products that we're hoping to fire off. And further down the road, we're hoping to start creating platforms, developers toolkit for VR for our product. So people with vaginas can also experience VR. Right. Like it's a side note really interesting to note that Nadia America, we had somebody that actually went to their booth and they asked her, do you want the male perspective or the female perspective? And she was elated and said, oh, wow, you have a female perspective. I want to see the female perspective. And then she put on the goggles. And you know what she saw?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And here. Yeah. And I think that's really important. So we're going to use that platform. And what's really amazing about that is, you know, I'm not a woman of color. I'm Sicilian.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now, we have a great opportunity to continue talking about this dearth of female non-binary and minority representation within tech and within business because of what's happened. I've actually been invited to speak at South by Southwest. I'll be speaking at Muse Conference out of Bend Muses for Women and Young Women and Girls. And I'll be speaking at Forbes Women in Tel Aviv end of March”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, all those people in the way. Right, right. I love that area or cell phone covers. Yeah. There's plenty of those. Yeah. I think there are plenty of ways for them to approach this. But truly, if they weren't to do anything”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I don't. And I think that's really important. The last thing I want to do is be allocated or segregated to a corner and have AVN start all over again. The fact is some of these products are very innovative and they do deserve awards. You know what I mean?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, like having this biased rejection just, it didn't make any sense. And it's just going to blow up in their faces, right? So, I mean, I think laying down some guidelines about what kind of products and what kind of companies and how you market on the floor. It makes sense if they want to keep things a little bit more PG. That makes more sense to me. And really allowing a certain amount of companies in that fall within this category because the last thing I want to see is a whole wall of pink.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's someone's head Try to help them get there. That would be CFP. But if we could do what could they do? What could they do?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know it's profane the Facebook portal, but go ahead. Oh my God. That's profane. Someone gave me one and I think I threw it in someone's head. So you'd like to sit down with them and talk about it and try to help them get there. Interestingly, Gary wrote me a note because I said something negative about CES and he's like, we should talk. So maybe we will have that happen.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would love to sit down at the table with them and talk to them about how they promote better diversity, how they talk about sex in a way that is not immoral, that's not profane. And I would love to see them turn that around. And I would love to work with them on some guidelines about how they know it's profane.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, you got a lot of really fantastically large companies in technology. All kinds of companies are there. They're small. You're greening things. But it is a very sex-positive community as well, which is nice. Very nice difference too. I think it is really important to note, though, that I think I'm always going to try to look at things from a more positive light, I suppose. And I think CES and the CTI still has an opportunity to turn this around.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But there's a lot of innovation in Portland. People forget the tall. You have a lot of really fantastically large companies in technology and also technology. You know what I mean? You don't think of Nike as technology, but Intel's there, all kinds of companies are there. You're small things”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, really, let's be honest. I do. All right. I identify with that argument. Exactly. Whenever I yell. Oh, yes, y What are you going to do? So I think it's really important to know that you're still in Portland. Yes. Well, we're actually in Bend, Oregon. Okay. All right. We're in Bend, Oregon. We also have an engineering lab in Corvallis. It's right next to Oregon State University. Right, a lot goes on.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Times about it They were. They were very sweet. Shockingly sweet. Thank you. Oh, yeah. I know that she had a bit of a hand on that. She did. She”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it was. Oh, the tweets. I wrote a whole column in the New York Times about it. They were. They were very sweet. Shockingly sweet. Thank you. I wrote about him twice in two weeks about his penis. It was really quite something. And the New York Times, I was like, never in my life did I feel I would reach this peak of journalistic excellence. But actually this week I'm writing about the Amazon headquarters, which was not quite the.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I mean, we could get trolls. You're going to get people that are going to be like, oh, you know, she's just being pitchy or she's just being whiny. I'm sorry if I was a man and I was doing this.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's like a class, it's fabulous. So we told that entire group were what we were going to do, that we were going to do this leak and we were going to blow this up, blow the lid off the whole thing and expose it. And the reaction we got from the whole room was, that's great, but aren't you afraid that somebody's going to call you bitchy or whiny? Or are you afraid that somebody's going to pull your funding? And those are all very real possibilities. I don't care.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I won't shut up right, right? I'm just going to keep driving ahead at this point. And I think that's how we've gotten this far in the first place. Every time somebody has kind of looked at me a little funny, like, are you sure you're going to do okay with that? Or, oh, oh, that's a cute idea that you're starting a business. Do they use the word cute? Yeah. The word cute has been used. You know, when I'm a part of the Portland Accelerate program, our Accelerate Fund Portland program. And that's a collection of female and female-facing entrepreneurs, CEOs, and founders. It's a cohort helping those people trying to really get a hold of their business.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From what I understand. But they do buy for their partners? Yes, they do. Exactly. A good percentage of them do buy for their partners. And I've had a number of older white males come to me and say, hey, I really appreciate my partner. I'm not intimidated by this product and I want to get it for her. Right. And that I think that's what I was talking about when the individual, I think generally on an individual basis, they do make the right decisions. But as a group, how do you change that from your perspective?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, it's a mechanical device. Something like that can also be a little frightening. It's a little off putting. And it's aimed at it.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not, I think on an individual basis, they're actually very amenable to and want to allow diversity in on an individual basis. But as a group, it seems that people tend to want to allow others in that look like them, that talk like them, that have the same education as them. I call it a mirror democracy. Yes. Yes. Yeah.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To me, I mean, I'm in my 30s. I've seen, like, I've talked to my mother about this. I mean, she burned her bra. Did she actually? She actually burned her bra. So I grew up in a very feminist-friendly household and wasn't really exposed to a lot of this until later in life when I started realizing, wow, there's a huge divide between men and women where my ability to make choices about my body, where my ability to date someone and not be called a slut are concerned. And it kind of, it passes through to everything. It passes through to business, to technology, even in health.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you're missing out on a huge opportunity. I mean, where women spend, where we spend our money, 70% of that comes from the female into the household. We make 80% of the buying decisions and you're only marketing to the male side. Right. Why do you think that?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, the fact is only about 2% of all female founders end up entrepreneurs, end up with VC funding. And 0.2% of that are minorities, people of color. 2% of all VC funding. And I think that spread in itself describes the dearth of female representation of queer representation, non-binary people, people of color, minorities. Yes, completely. And when you have so little diversity in technology, you end up with things like hiring processes or hiring AI that discriminates against women. You end up with companies that don't make as much money if they had actually started including women. Right. Because they're only marketing to a very small segment, a very small demographic that looks like them.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, CES has had issues with being able to make women or people outside of white cis male, straight males, feel comfortable at CES. And the biggest problem there isn't the products particularly, yes, a whole wall of pink is pretty atrocious. But the problem is it's how men act around sex more so than the products themselves that make most people uncomfortable. Yeah, I would agree.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, because you're all like teenage boys. Oh, yeah. Actually, my kids are teenage boys. They're not like us. And it was amazing. I remember thinking, what a bunch of idiots this woman's tang of things that are very smart that they should be.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, all of it. People don't do it. I have said this so many times a bright line. There was a woman innovator who I brought to CES actually for I did an interview with her and I'm blanking. She was the most downloaded woman on the internet, but she was also brilliant. What was her name? Anyway, she was very early pioneer in all this, and she was. Absolutely brilliant in conceptual ideas around the internet. And it was downloadable, all kinds of things. And I brought her to a session at CS. All I had was guys snickering, and I was like, Are you stupid? This woman had her ideas are brilliant. And she runs circles around you. And Danny, Danny, someone. Anyway, it just was, she was way ahead of her time in terms of sniff. In any case, but they were snickering. And I was like, oh, God, stop. Get away from.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like I said, like, where did we get VHS from? Where did we get? How do you pay for things on the internet? Where do you think that started from? That started in porn?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“These people are innovating and they're going to get left behind when you have an entire section of an entire demographic all by itself and those are the only people that are allowed to be there to innovate, then you lose out on so many other possibilities. Right.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what impact did it have? They couldn't have done us a bigger favor because we know exactly, we know that this product is innovative. It's technologically innovative. What we're doing and how we're processing the process by which we're creating itself is innovative. We're iterating on a daily basis. Our team is very dialed in. And we kind of, we look at CES and yes, they do poise themselves as pioneers in innovation as kind of the show to be at each year. And I'm not mad. I'm not upset. I would welcome a conversation with them. I would welcome the ability to sit down with the CTA and help them figure out how to move forward. Because the fact is, if they don't move forward with products like mine and with female innovators, with people of color, with minorities, with the LGBTQ community, they're going to get left behind.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Looks at things We had already done the leak, so we had already started getting some attention and getting some press coverage. So we have people walking up to our booths going, oh my gosh, you're here. Oh my gosh, that's the product. Oh, wow. And it kind of exploded at that point. And like I said, the showstoppers also put on in partnership with IHS Market Innovations out of the UK. And they gave us an award for robotics. And one of the things they said when they walked away was, we promise we won't take this one back. Yeah.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we didn't go to CES. We actually went to showstoppers, which is a press event at CES. And we did our release there. And you know what happened at the end of the show is IHS Market Innovation Awards ended up giving us an honoree innovation award in robotics and drones. So go figure.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was just insane. It was an insane display. And the whole push was to get more women involved. But they pink color devices. I literally was like, I will never come here again. This is just who is thinking up this crap, essentially.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is just, I'm going to interrupt. This was a group Of people that did it. I'll never forget this when I was in CS, they did a whole display of pink colored devices for women. Remember that? That was just. Horrifying when I walked into it, I was like, what?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No. They released a statement to the press saying after everything had been leaked and we started getting coverage saying that we told them we were sorry two months ago. We said we were sorry and they never qualified. That's it. And that was all we heard from them. So at this point, I would.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They never gave us a true reason. And then after they said we weren't qualified for any category whatsoever, John Parmigani at Oregon State sent them a letter saying this does qualify. It is a robotic product. And if that qualifies for many of your categories, and they never responded.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They have. A French company called Be Sensory. The product was called Little Bird. They had given another award to a product that was produced by the company Oh My Bod. And Kegwill Exercisers and multiple other products, but somehow this is where the buck stopped.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Forget everything you are banned from the show, and you don't qualify for any category ever at all whatsoever. End of story.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We went through your vetting process. Your expert judges gave us the award, and now you're taking it back. How is it a misunderstanding? It got this far. And then they said again,”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The CTA, it had gone straight up the ladder, straight to the head of the CTA. And what was interesting, it wasn't the expert judges that rescinded our award. It was the administrators.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The CTA They sent us a letter citing those specific words. And, you know, when you have a company called Naughty America, like Naughty is synonymous with immoral or profane. And that doesn't quite make sense. So we said as much to them. We sent letters directly back to them citing that it was, you know, their decision was arbitrary. It was extremely capricious. And additionally, we thought it was extremely biased considering what they had on the floor. And they returned back to us saying that, well, never mind, forget we said that. There was just a misunderstanding. You should have never gotten this far in the first place. A misunderstanding. A misunderstanding.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Comfortable with this. Yeah, and they had it at that time. So they said we couldn't exhibit. And then we said, okay, well, how are we going to get in the showcase? And then they went quiet for a couple of days and then they sent us a letter saying we're sorry, we're going to rescind your award. We're taking your award away because they cited words like immoral, obscene, profane.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Adult video network and CTA and the CES show at the same time, which is all the same show. They weren't at the same time. They were the same show. Oh, they were. Oh, okay. They used to be in the same building, same show. It was because of the advent of a video technology in the VCR. The VCR made its debut there. And so slowly they started to part ways. They literally started to divide down the show floor and porn went to the back and CES were front. They were in it in front. And then they split venues. Then they started splitting further and further away in time. Now they're two completely separate shows. Absolutely.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Number of adult products on their floor, exhibiting on their floor. So that was our first flag. You'll see Naughty America. They do Nairo. There's also a company called Oh My Bod. They do vibrators and sexual stimulators. And we've seen a couple of products in the past, one called Little Bird by Bee Sensory, a really neat idea that was connected to an e-reader and some other products that have won.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And so if you want that, you have to apply for the exhibitor space, the booth. And that's when we got flagged. They said, well, you're an adult product. Wait, do you, this has to do with vaginas. We can't do this. No, and they flagged us and theyll. They said it's an adult product. And the thing that we thought was strange is there are...”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So they give us an award and we started planning for it. We put a PR plan together to be there at CES and to basically do our soft unveiling. At CES, and we're extremely excited about it. And then you apply and you get the award, they give you showcase spot. So if you want to be in the showcase, you also have to be on the exhibitor floor. So we were applying for the exhibitor floor. You have to pay for that. We were going through the rigor roll there. Yeah, they're boots.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've been in healthcare for about 10 to 12 years everywhere from front of house to back of house nursing. I was pre-med at Portland State and ended up going to Norwich University on a Fulbright scholarship with the Navy prior to that. And I was pre-med at the time when I started the business and I decided I didn't want to spend another 10 years still to finish med school. Good choice.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's robotics and drones. Drones, okay. Yeah, they lump everything, and that's the word category. If you're a robot or your drone, like you're going in that category. And we know that CES has been or poses itself to be a pioneer in technology. I mean, they're you've been?”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tell the story. So we had applied in about, I believe, in September, and we received the award in October. The process that you have to go through, which is you have to get vetted by the CTA. Your company has to get vetted, and then your product has to get vetted, and then they pass it along to a panel of expert judges. So we had experts in robotics and drones reviewing our product, and they said, yes, this deserves an honorary innovation award in robotics and drones. And they bestowed that award upon us. And we were ecstatic. I have a large team of engineers who felt very validated by this. The CTAs...”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, exactly. And most people who do hardware from everything from the Fitbit to other things have very tough going. Not just to sell it, market it, but to create rather than software, which is just repeats itself over and again. No additional cost. So it's a long road. And so it requires a lot of not just money, but also fortitude. And when you get awards like this, it's a big deal, an innovation award.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT