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Bryan Johnson

Founder, Project Blueprint · 1 appearance on the record.

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Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur and biohacker best known for Project Blueprint, a rigorous, highly publicized health optimization and longevity protocol aimed at reversing biological aging. He previously founded payment company Braintree (which acquired Venmo and sold to PayPal for $800 million in 2013), neurotech firm Kernel, and deep-tech venture firm OS Fund.

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2 predictions · 1 assertion · 3 opinions · 4 insights · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Bryan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Johnson: Project Blueprint costs $1,500 monthly, not $2 million annually
“The headline with Blueprint is that it's two million dollars a year. It's not. It's, you know, like, 1500 dollars a month, which includes your groceries.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 25:32 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)

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Everything Bryan Johnson said on BigDeal that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Johnson: Most mainstream advice about food and medicine is wrong
“Most of it. Really? Yeah, most of it, yeah.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 14:33 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Johnson: Humans will eventually no longer be the architects of intelligence
“I can't imagine a situation where we humans are still the architects of intelligence in some duration of time.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 18:54 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Johnson: Superintelligence growth renders human future predictions impossible
“I think they say, you're In the eve before the creation of super intelligence, and the intelligence you're creating is growing at a speed faster than you can comprehend. That renders your ability to predict the future to zero.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 17:31 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Opinion
Johnson: Entrepreneurial hustle and sleep martyrdom culture is a normalized death cult
“The only objective is that intelligence continues to thrive in this part of the galaxy, but your games of martyrdom are basically a death cult, and you normalize to it, and you can't see it.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 24:47 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Project Blueprint costs $1,500 monthly, not $2 million annually
“The headline with Blueprint is that it's two million dollars a year. It's not. It's, you know, like, 1500 dollars a month, which includes your groceries.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 25:32 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Opinion
Johnson: Pharma and medical institutions do not operate out of malice
“I don't think it's because of malice. I don't think it's because pharma is some kind of evil, you know, group trying to kick over the world. They're doing their thing, and everyone is. Doctors are. Institutions are. So I don't assign any malice.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 14:40 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Disclosure
Johnson: Leaving church and getting divorced cured his 10-year chronic depression
“I left my church, and I got a divorce. And those two changes just made it evaporate. So it was environmental, and it was contextual.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 19:41 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Insight
Johnson: Biological immortality may replace wealth and legacy as ultimate human goals
“We are a species that craves immortality. We do. We crave it through our children, through money, through legacy. We crave it through accomplishments. And I'm suggesting that true immortality, or don't die, may be the replacement for all these other games we'v…”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 28:14 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Insight
Johnson: Longevity backlash occurs because people fear their life choices are obsolete
“This is why this, these ideas are so provocative and why they generate so much hate. Is that people have these knee-jerk reactions and they're defending all their life choices. Because to realize that you've been playing a game your entire life that is about t…”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 29:00 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Disclosure
Johnson labels any action that accelerates his biological aging as self-violence
“I'm going to say any action that I take that increases my speed of aging, going to label as an act of violence, and I'm going to shift it.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 31:23 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Insight
Johnson: 'Don't die' is the foundational game played before capitalism or religion
“That's the zeroth step, is, you know, don't die is the most played game By every human, by every living being on every animal, every plant, every human, it's don't die every second of every day. And so it's played more than capitalism. It's played more than re…”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 3:24 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Insight
Johnson: Aim to be zero and create new games instead of competing
“Don't try to be number one. Try to be zero. And number one is like you're going for rank in a given game. You're trying to be other players. A zero is, this is like a different concept. Zero is principle thinking. You're trying to come up with a new idea, a ne…”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 9:06 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Disclosure
Johnson disregards his first five thoughts to let his brain situate itself
“I know with my thoughts, in any given situation, I will disregard the first Five or six thoughts I have on anything because I know my brain's like just trying to situate itself.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 10:56 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Disclosure
Johnson: Blueprint aims to be the best health protocol and completely free
“We tried to basically make the best health protocol in human history, and then make the whole thing available for free for everybody.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 16:09 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Disclosure
Johnson: Making money was purely an instrument to fund humanity-changing goals
“I didn't know what to do, so I said, I'm going to make money first, and then with money go out and try to figure out what to do. So it has, it's been something I've been working on explicitly for 25 years.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 6:22 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)

The other half of the tape: Bryan Johnson's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 42 times in 9 episodes on BigDeal. 8 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 24Danica Patrick 14Senada Greca 1Aaron Alexander 1

Statements about Bryan Johnson, by other people (8)

Insight
Dr. Lyon: Whole animal protein cannot be fully replaced by supplements
“I mean, because it's not just about the protein. It's about the food matrix. It's about bioavailable iron and zinc, selenium, creatine, carnitine, and serine. You shouldn't need to take a million different supplements. We didn't evolve that way.”
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 55:22 How to Burn Fat, Build Muscle, and Live Longer | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon & Navy Seal Chris Petkas
Opinion
Weissman: Sacrificing quality of life to extend lifespan by three years is not worthwhile
“I don't know when I'm going to die, but I sure as fuck don't want to ruin my quality of life just so that I can live three years longer.”
Joshua Weissman Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 1:09:35 How to Build a $10M+ Online Empire (feat. Joshua Weissman)
Opinion
Sanchez: Johnson uses the Kardashian playbook to drive product sales
“He would kind of come up with this, like, you know, campaign that the New York Times would pick up, and then he would launch a product afterwards. It's kind of the Kardashian effect, essentially. They knew that to draft off the cultural conversation meant They…”
Codie Sanchez Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 38:25 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Insight
Sanchez: Johnson can build a cult-like longevity movement through capital and attention
“If he compares three hundred million dollars with hundreds of millions of views online, which he's doing with YouTube, with getting the next generation involved, he can create a cult-like movement.”
Codie Sanchez Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 51:33 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sanchez: Johnson will build a giant health empire like Goop
“So I bet he built something giant. It kind of reminds me, I texted him, I was like, you know, you should look at what Gwyneth Paltrow did with Goop, because it was similar.”
Codie Sanchez Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 54:00 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Opinion
Patrick: Bryan Johnson is relatable, present, and very easy to talk to
“He has like a little bit of sort of like a techie nerdiness to him. Because that's the world he came from. So there's like a little bit of that. But he's super, like, I'm not going to say super normal because what he does, but he's very easy to talk to. Very, …”
Danica Patrick Aug 20, 2024 ▶ 1:02:05 Why is Everyone so Emotionally Fragile? (ft. Danica Patrick)
Assertion Supported
Sanchez: Johnson bought Venmo for $26M and sold Braintree for $800M
“Brian founded Braintree, then he bought Venmo, actually you guys have all used that, for only twenty six million, which in the scheme of things, not that much, grew it like crazy, and processed twelve billion payments, then sold that bad boy as a combined enti…”
Codie Sanchez Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 42:33 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
Assertion Partly supported
Sanchez: Johnson renamed his olive oil to 'Snake Oil' after backlash
“In fact, because he was getting so much hate on the internet, he launched an olive oil company because he thinks that the delivery of olive oil is really important if it's done a particular way, and so he had an olive oil called Blueprint. People started calli…”
Codie Sanchez Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 38:47 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson) Apr 23, 2024 19m
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