The Liquidity Event · 2026-06-11 · 33 min
AJ is joined by special guest Lauren Makler, co-founder and CEO of Cofertility, for one of the most honest and eye-opening conversations The Liquidity Event has had to date. Lauren spent almost a decade at Uber before founding Cofertility, a company that helps women freeze their eggs for free when they donate half of the eggs retrieved to intended parents who need an egg donor to have a baby. AJ and Lauren dig into the real economics of egg freezing, what it actually costs in 2026 with and without employer coverage, and why the window in which you benefit most from egg freezing is almost always the window in which you can least afford it. They also get into third-party reproduction, why egg donation is fertility's last taboo, and how Cofertility is flipping the traditional transactional model on its head. The conversation goes deeper from there, covering what it is like to raise money as a woman for a women's health startup, why getting men to actually take their paternity leave might be one of the most powerful things we can do to advance workplace equity, and the biggest misconception Lauren hears about fertility that she wishes she could correct at scale.
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