Jun 9, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 14 segments
#383: Lauren Makler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cofertility. Prior to this, she was an early Uber employee who founded Uber Health, connecting patients with rides to care. Then, in her late twenties…
Lauren MaklerGuestEmily ElizabethHostI have a ton of questions, but I feel like naturally we have to start at the origin of your journey with building co-fertility and maybe perhaps the origin of your interest in this all.
Can you share more about this experience, what it entailed, what were some of the risks and really like how it helped you reshape life? The way you thought about life, because if I'm not mistaken, this was around your late 20s.
It's interesting for me, at least, how intertwined my health, career, love life, all of it was.
Like for so many people, it's like, oh, this is my personal life lane and this is my work lane.
When your health comes into question, almost like immediately everything is like in question.
When I had been at Uber for about four years at this point, I was a pretty early Uber employee.
Started out there launching new markets across the East Coast and then saw an opportunity for Uber in the healthcare space doing non-emergency medical transportation when I became a patient myself.
I have a ton of questions, but I feel like naturally we have to start at the origin of your journey with building co-fertility and maybe perhaps the origin of your interest in this all.
Can you share more about this experience, what it entailed, what were some of the risks and really like how it helped you reshape life? The way you thought about life, because if I'm not mistaken, this was around your late 20s.
It's interesting for me, at least, how intertwined my health, career, love life, all of it was.
Like for so many people, it's like, oh, this is my personal life lane and this is my work lane.
When your health comes into question, almost like immediately everything is like in question.
When I had been at Uber for about four years at this point, I was a pretty early Uber employee.
Started out there launching new markets across the East Coast and then saw an opportunity for Uber in the healthcare space doing non-emergency medical transportation when I became a patient myself.
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