Bryan Johnson
42 statements across 2 episodes · 15 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2016 by Bryan Johnson · said 35 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 29 mentions in 4 episodes 7 per episode
- 20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- 20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Everything said about Bryan Johnson, oldest first
Jan 25, 2016 positive
Bryan Johnson: Hard science VC is less competitive than software investing
“I found it to be less competitive and less cutthroat and Then say, for example, you find the behavior and investing in a particular app or software company where you have, you know, dozens and dozens of companies that could are viable capital sources. There's …”
Jan 25, 2016
Bryan Johnson: OS Fund built science investment frameworks using Big Pharma practices
“So we used we went out and analyzed a number of different decision-making processes for Big Pharma and Big Oil, how they actually gather data, process data, and make decisions. So we used decision analysis and created a model that helped guide us through what …”
Jan 25, 2016 bullish
Bryan Johnson: Blockchain's societal impact is as unpredictable as the printing press
“I love it. It's a fantastic technology. It's that, I mean, I guess I kind of think of it like, I mean, the blockchain technology, I kind of think of it like the printing press, where when we figured out how we could, someone could write words, and it could be …”
Jan 25, 2016 bullish
Jan 25, 2016 positive
Bryan Johnson: OS Fund frequently co-invests with Founders Fund and Lux Capital
“Yeah, we, so quite a few. Like we like DC, VC, Founders Fund, Lux Capital. There's like, there's probably like a dozen or so we love that we love working with. They again are just Great people, good processes, smart minds, and very collaborative.”
Jan 25, 2016 bullish
Jan 25, 2016
Jan 25, 2016 positive
Bryan Johnson: Modern technology allows humanity to program its own existence
“I spent, during that time, a lot of, spent a lot of time reading science and technology and trying to figure out where the human race was going, and I came to, like, was one realization that changed my outlook and my understanding forever, my relationship with…”
Jan 25, 2016 positive
Jan 25, 2016
Bryan Johnson: OS Fund invests on multi-decade horizons for transformative returns
“My benchmark of is the goal is to benefit the lives of billions of people for generations to come. It's like rewrite the major operating systems of our society. And so if a company can do that and they can make money doing it, Then I don't really care what the…”
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: Pressure-testing ideas requires three core questions about truth conditions
“Unless you ask those three questions of what must be true, what must remain true, and what would change to make that entirely untrue, you don't pressure test the ideas well enough and you're stuck in this very narrow band of thought.”
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Bryan Johnson: Religion is the most durable technology in human history
“If you look at the data, I think it might be fair to observe that religion has been the most powerful An effective and durable technology in all of history. It has outlasted nation states. It's outlasted technological trends. It's outlasted every other form of…”
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: Pause judgment on new ideas to prevent knee-jerk bias
“And I make a rule for myself that whenever I encounter a new idea, I try to set up an alert in my brain that says, alert, new idea has landed. And when a new idea lands, the rule is I can't say anything or think anything to form conclusions for some duration o…”
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024 negative
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: People reject new ideas because they threaten their fundamental identity
“So if you're already geared up and say, I find that I'm valuable in society because I'm doing this heroic act. If you remove the underlying layer, it's no longer heroic and valuable. And so it removes all other identity. And so your knee-jerk response would be…”
Mar 22, 2024 negative
Bryan Johnson: Framing social debauchery and vices as healthy bonding is bullshit
“Debauchery. The stories that people tell of their favorite vice, you know, it's like the glass of wine and the bowl of pasta with friends late at night talking about blankety blank as their most special moments. They treat it as though that's the only way that…”
Mar 22, 2024 neutral
Bryan Johnson: Discerning which AI timeline experts are correct is impossible
“If you're genuinely interested person about this question, you hear dozens of the top experts in the world all express different opinions, and for good reasons. Like, they all have well-reasoned arguments. And so then you say, what, how do I discern who's corr…”
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Bryan Johnson: Reframe your identity as a professional sleeper to fix sleep
“Reframe your identity, that you are a professional sleeper. So in the same way that each one of us every day shows up to our meetings on time, if we're two minutes late, we apologize. So set your bedtime and show up on time. And if you're two minutes late, apo…”
Mar 22, 2024 neutral
Bryan Johnson views weight-loss drugs like Ozempic as biological algorithms
“Now, an example is, Ozembek is an algorithm. If people are overweight, and they're having problems with overeating, You take a pill, and it turns off hunger. Let's put side effects aside for a moment. It is an algorithm that changes your hunger profile, and it…”
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Bryan Johnson: Algorithmic living rendered me the best version of myself
“I think my children and my friends and family would say, this is the best version of me I've ever achieved. I'm more sober minded. I have better clarity of thought. My emotions are much more stable. I, I'm just, I've never been a better human than I am right n…”
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson claims therapies increased his nighttime erection duration to three hours
“And my baseline measurement was two hours and 12 minutes. I did all the baseline measurements. I did some therapies, and then I achieved just under three hours, which is better than the average eighteen-year-old. So in that regard, I've quantitatively improved…”
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: Most people will reject algorithmic governance as dystopian
“So these ideas, a lot of people listening to this their knee-jerk reactions are going to be something like, this guy's nuts. This is dystopic. You know, the majority of people listening will have those thoughts because they're gonna, they, even though we've ta…”
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024 neutral
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: Questioning my religion was my most uncomfortable life experience
“And that is the most uncomfortable thing I had ever encountered in my life because Every single bit of my reality, my family and my children and my community and my identity and my ambitions, everything was built upon that thing.”
Mar 22, 2024 neutral
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Mar 22, 2024 negative
Bryan Johnson: Applying superintelligence to existing human conflicts increases extinction risk
“Right now we're bringing super intelligence into the world and we're doing it in the games we play now, which is go to war. Become more effective at killing people. Acquire more wealth. Like, we're playing games of violence and death, and if we do that, we're …”
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: Rebuilding community after leaving religion prevents loneliness
“I've, no, I don't. I've recreated my social life, my community. I've gotten, it was growing up in a religion community is solved for you. Everyone is there for you. They're all similar. You all have the same beliefs. It's easy to have friends. It's easy to get…”
Mar 22, 2024 bullish
Bryan Johnson: Autonomous computational networks will inevitably govern human intelligence and decisions
“These systems are going to run faster than our minds, the more efficient than our minds, they'll have more data than our minds, so the future is us in this autonomous network Of computational goal alignment among all intelligence. Now, that sounds unfathomable…”
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Bryan Johnson put his 71-year-old father on the Blueprint longevity protocol
“My dad is 71. His life expectancy based upon how he's lived his life is 68. He's been obese, and he's done hard hard drugs, and so I've been working with him on Project Keep Dad Alive. And he's been doing all the advanced therapies I have. He's on blueprint.”
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: 'Don't Die' is a more universal game than capitalism or religion
“Don't die is the most played game in existence. No, there's no game on planet earth that intelligence, all intelligence plays more than don't die. Every second of every day, all of us are playing don't die. And it's played even more than capitalism played it p…”
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024
Bryan Johnson: The true meaning of life is continued physical existence
“The meaning of life to me is, is like, is this, that when intelligence reaches a certain level of capability, which is right now, like after 4.5 billion years on this earth, In the past few years, we have reached a critical point after 4.5 billion years for th…”
Mar 22, 2024