We talk to Lydia Daniller, co-founder of OMGYES, the sex ed platform featuring 'touchable' videos and breaking the female pleasure taboo.
To coincide with International Women’s Day, we caught up with OMGYES co-founder Lydia Daniller — “VCs don’t fund projects about [female pleasure], the app stores ban anything remotely explicit.”
Our attitudes towards sex may be changing, but female pleasure can still be a taboo conversation topic. Hoping to encourage a shift and create a more open, liberated dialogue for women curious to find out more about sexual pleasure, OMGYES is a platform offering interactive videos of participants willing to share their experience-based (and scientific research supported) techniques on female pleasure.
And it is doing it by integrating new tech — the sex ed videos are ‘touchable’. Participants worked with engineers to program in their unique sensitivities and reactions, and users are able to practice techniques on the screen and receive audio feedback. Find out more in the interview below, where we talk to Lydia about breaking down taboos, scrapping a finished, polished prototype because there was a better solution, and how intense starting your own business can actually be.
Thanks Lydia!
15. Do you have any wise words for aspiring entrepreneurs?
Thanks Lydia!
14. How did you get your initial round of funding to get your company off the ground?
15. Do you have any wise words for aspiring entrepreneurs?
11. Where do you see your business in five years, and how will you get there?
14. How did you get your initial round of funding to get your company off the ground?
10. What book are you reading, or writing now?
11. Where do you see your business in five years, and how will you get there?
9. Do you have any habits or routines, which help you in your working life?
10. What book are you reading, or writing now?
8. If you were to start again, what would you do differently?
9. Do you have any habits or routines, which help you in your working life?
7. What motivates you to keep going? What do you do when you hit a block?
8. If you were to start again, what would you do differently?
6. What drove you crazy when building your business?
7. What motivates you to keep going? What do you do when you hit a block?
5. What’s the most important characteristic for being an entrepreneur?
6. What drove you crazy when building your business?
4. How do you unwind or relax when you’re not working on your business?
5. What’s the most important characteristic for being an entrepreneur?
3. Can you describe a typical working day?
4. How do you unwind or relax when you’re not working on your business?
2. What change does OMGYES want to facilitate?
3. Can you describe a typical working day?
1. Where did the idea for your business come from?
2. What change does OMGYES want to facilitate?
