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Jessica Schaefer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

Yeah, I think there are opportunities to use technology to help. There is no reason that someone like myself should have taken the trigger shot accidentally. You could get updates on your app or you could get basically be meeting with a nurse or a fertility specialist more often. often via telehealth, which is not happening right now. I think there's also ways to incorporate AI into the process.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

There are so many questions that you have just because you're anxious, right? You said you were suffering from a lot of anxiety. I was suffering from a lot of anxiety during this process. And I would want to know just answers to the most basic things to make sure I was doing it correctly. So you can actually program

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

There are so many questions that you have just because you're anxious, right? You said you were suffering from a lot of anxiety. I was suffering from a lot of anxiety during this process. And I would want to know just answers to the most basic things to make sure I was doing it correctly. So you can actually program

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

There are so many questions that you have just because you're anxious, right? You said you were suffering from a lot of anxiety. I was suffering from a lot of anxiety during this process. And I would want to know just answers to the most basic things to make sure I was doing it correctly. So you can actually program

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

AI based on the doctor's responses so that at night, if you have questions, they can be answered. And so there are ways where we could provide a concierge really custom high level model to this industry without cutting corners and make it so that it's profitable. And I don't think that a lot of the fertility companies out there right now are doing that. So most of them are started by doctors.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

AI based on the doctor's responses so that at night, if you have questions, they can be answered. And so there are ways where we could provide a concierge really custom high level model to this industry without cutting corners and make it so that it's profitable. And I don't think that a lot of the fertility companies out there right now are doing that. So most of them are started by doctors.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

AI based on the doctor's responses so that at night, if you have questions, they can be answered. And so there are ways where we could provide a concierge really custom high level model to this industry without cutting corners and make it so that it's profitable. And I don't think that a lot of the fertility companies out there right now are doing that. So most of them are started by doctors.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And I think doctors, they're used to being around needles. They're used to being around these like ugly red bins with the crazy, you know, danger sign on them. We're not.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And I think doctors, they're used to being around needles. They're used to being around these like ugly red bins with the crazy, you know, danger sign on them. We're not.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And I think doctors, they're used to being around needles. They're used to being around these like ugly red bins with the crazy, you know, danger sign on them. We're not.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so I think if someone were to come in from outside of the industry who has gone through the process, who was a patient, who has a focus on marketing technology and can apply some of those resources, we could provide a much different experience.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so I think if someone were to come in from outside of the industry who has gone through the process, who was a patient, who has a focus on marketing technology and can apply some of those resources, we could provide a much different experience.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so I think if someone were to come in from outside of the industry who has gone through the process, who was a patient, who has a focus on marketing technology and can apply some of those resources, we could provide a much different experience.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

Yeah, so I'm investing in this space and I'm also working on a company in stealth in this area. But we're basically investing in AI, a technology platform that will transform the industry in the way that is being done now so that... Someone like me never has the experience that I had before.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

Yeah, so I'm investing in this space and I'm also working on a company in stealth in this area. But we're basically investing in AI, a technology platform that will transform the industry in the way that is being done now so that... Someone like me never has the experience that I had before.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

Yeah, so I'm investing in this space and I'm also working on a company in stealth in this area. But we're basically investing in AI, a technology platform that will transform the industry in the way that is being done now so that... Someone like me never has the experience that I had before.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

But at this point, I've spoken to close to 200 women just through customer research to make sure we get the product right. And every single person has the same experience. I have not met one person who had done the cycle one time, who didn't experience anxiety, who didn't feel alone. Not one person.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

But at this point, I've spoken to close to 200 women just through customer research to make sure we get the product right. And every single person has the same experience. I have not met one person who had done the cycle one time, who didn't experience anxiety, who didn't feel alone. Not one person.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

But at this point, I've spoken to close to 200 women just through customer research to make sure we get the product right. And every single person has the same experience. I have not met one person who had done the cycle one time, who didn't experience anxiety, who didn't feel alone. Not one person.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

On the VC funding, I come from a different seat, mostly because the PR firm I built, we worked with a lot of venture capital funds, but we were primarily focused in fintech. It wasn't until the last two years of the company that we started to see this shift. And there was so much more capital flowing into healthcare, flowing into femtech.