Bryan Johnson

32 statements across 9 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 136 times in 28 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about Bryan Johnson, oldest first

Jun 9, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bryan Johnson invested $54 million of his own money into Kernel
“He put, ah, so they've raised 53 from outside, 54 from his own money.”
Sam Parr Jun 9, 2021 ▶ 1:01:22 Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
Nov 19, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Parr: Bryan Johnson's proactive biohacking will become common in 15–30 years
“I think what this guy is doing is going to be very common, not in five years, but like maybe in 15 or 20 or 30 years.”
Sam Parr Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 47:31 Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Johnson: My veganism is purely ethical; the health protocol is data-agnostic
“I'm vegan for ethical and moral reasons, but I'm not vegan because I think it's you know, I didn't, at the, at labor abstraction, we just put the data. We're agnostic to these inputs.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 49:23 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Disclosure
Johnson: I refuse to pilot airplanes solo due to amateur error statistics
“I refused to fly alone because I knew the risk of error was just the map was there. The stats were there.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 47:54 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Johnson: I strictly cap my daily food intake at exactly 1,977 calories
“I eat 1977 calories per day. That's it. Not anymore. And that is my absolute budget and I cannot go over it.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 53:52 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Insight
Johnson: True employee feedback is what they tell their spouse at home
“It's very hard to get someone's real opinion of you because it's difficult for someone to be honest, but what we all know when we go home from work and we're talking to our significant others, like that's the truth serum in action, you know, like where we real…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 56:46 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Insight
Johnson: Medical imaging provides fundamentally better biological data than wearables or bloodwork
“So if you look at the pyramid of measurement, Wearables are like part of the first category. And then you get to biofluids, like blood draws and, you know, urine and whatever else. Imaging is an entirely different quality class. And so if you want to get reall…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 1:07:15 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 neutral
Insight
Johnson: A person's organs and bodily systems age at different speeds
“Biologically, I'm a few hundred different ages. And so you, for example, if you're looking at the age of your heart, you can characterize The age of the heart through a few dozen markers. You can do the same thing with other parts of the body. So you're actual…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 2:07 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Insight
Johnson: Entrepreneurs must prioritize liquid cash over illiquid investments
“Cash is king. Like don't put your money in anything that's going to be illiquid. So there's been times in the past couple of years where I desperately needed cash and it was not, I didn't have liquid levels that I wanted it. And so liquidity for entrepreneurs …”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 21:59 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Disclosure
Johnson: My personal health protocol employs a team of 25 medical specialists
“So just like we have five sonographers to run the ultrasound machine, we have specialists in lung, specialists in the heart, specialists in other areas. So the team is like 25 or so maybe now all together that have different specialties.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 1:08:54 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 negative
Insight
Johnson: Relying on willpower to resist modern food environments is a losing game
“Trying to win this game with willpower is a losing game. If you put yourself in a situation where you have option A and option B, you're probably going to lose 50% of the time or more.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 45:33 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Johnson: I walked away with $300M from the Braintree sale to PayPal
“I hit three hundred million.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 16:16 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Johnson: I age 277 days per year, giving me three months free
“I'm currently aging at .76. So I, for every 365 days a year, I age 277. So I basically get like October, November, December for free.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 59:19 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Disclosure
Johnson: I give biological data 100% authority over what I eat
“Blueprint flips that. And it says, my mind has zero authority. My body has a hundred percent authority. So it, the measurement of my heart and liver and lungs and DNA methylation patterns, it directly asks for what it wants via data. And I can never override i…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 39:46 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Insight
Johnson: Never trade time for money; work for zero for asymmetric upside
“I was not willing to trade my time for money. You know, if someone was going to say, I'll pay you 15 dollars an hour to do blank. I didn't want to make that exchange. I wanted to say, I am willing to take zero for an indefinite period of time. In exchange, the…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 12:13 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Disclosure
Johnson: I sold Braintree for $800M to fund deep-tech science ventures
“Accumulation of money was not my objective. And I could have stuck with the company and we could have made more, you know, been more valuable, but it was like, okay, so if I do this, it's three hundred million. That's a good enough starting base to go off into…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 25:38 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: My 17-year-old son follows my exact identical biological health protocol
“My 17 year old is, he does the identical things I do.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 54:44 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Johnson: I never take cheat days because being overly full feels awful
“People ask me like, do you have cheat days? And like, no, like I, a cheat day sounds awful to me. It sounds like the worst feeling in the world to be full and to be regretful.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 55:48 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Opinion
Johnson: Blueprint is a philosophical endeavor for intelligence, not just wellness
“Blueprint to me is the best idea I've ever come up with and the most practical idea I've ever come up with to address that. And so from the outside perspective, it appears to be health and wellness and anti-aging and whatnot. That's all true, but really it's a…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 36:59 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: At 11 months, Braintree was doing $59k in monthly processing revenue
“At the 11 month mark, my portfolio of customers were generating, I think it was like 59,000 a month of revenue.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 11:34 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Disclosure
Johnson: I bought a hospital-grade ultrasound machine for my home health protocol
“Yeah, so we, I, last week, a couple weeks ago, I, we bought a medical grade, hospital grade, ultrasound machine.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 1:06:58 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Braintree's first product was a background credit card vault for OpenTable
“The first product was for OpenTable. It was just allowing someone to make a reservation, put in their credit card number and have it stored. So to the user, it appeared as if I was entering my credit card information in the OpenTable system, when in fact they'…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 11:00 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Ginkgo Bioworks was an early OS Fund investment that worked on mRNA vaccines
“Ginkgo Bioworks, one of my first investments, I ended up working on the mRNA vaccine.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 23:44 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Jan 26, 2023 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Bryan Johnson offers his personal longevity protocol to the public for $2M/year
“Well, it just released that, or it was just released that you can spend, I think like A lot like a 1.5 or two million dollars a year. And you basically can, he's gonna like anyone can use his doctors and go through his system in order to what he's trying to do…”
Sam Parr Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 50:59 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023 negative
Insight
Parr: Occasional Indulgence and Social Joy Outweigh Extreme Health Optimization
“That like, you know, that's like a life worth living is like when you have things to celebrate and like, you can build camaraderie with your friends. Like, yeah, just do it. You might live a little shorter. You might be sick for a few days, but like, you know,…”
Sam Parr Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 52:11 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Aug 9, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Hamilton: You Cannot Biohack Your Way Around Fundamental Human Biology
“I just feel like you can't hack your way around Biology in my, the world of my thought. And it is interesting. I think you can use hacking to support work. You know, I think first of all, I think in the diet, one of the most important things is diversity.”
Laird Hamilton Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 51:18 How This Big Wave Surfer Built A +$10 Million Business Empire (#483)
Oct 19, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Bryan Johnson will become world-famous within three years
“And then between now and where he's going to be in like sort of three years, you could tell This guy is just gonna become one of the most well-known people in this world. Like, I think that his story is gonna be one of the most well-known people in this world”
Shaan Puri Oct 19, 2023 ▶ 1:00:25 This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
Jan 29, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bryan Johnson generated $20M ARR on day one of Blueprint's launch
“So he got 5000, he got 12,000 people to apply, 5000 people paid. So let's do a little public math here. Let's break a rule. He just launched this product. He had more demand than he was willing to let in. He let in 5000 people. That's twenty million in ARR tha…”
Shaan Puri Jan 29, 2024 ▶ 27:52 $20M In ONE Day?! (#544)
Jan 29, 2024
Opinion
Puri: A $20M ARR subscription supplement business is worth $200M
“And twenty million of ARR for a subscription Supplements business essentially is like a two hundred million dollar business.”
Shaan Puri Jan 29, 2024 ▶ 28:12 $20M In ONE Day?! (#544)
Jul 19, 2024 positive
Opinion
Puri: Longevity Advocate Bryan Johnson Is Genuinely Mission-Driven, Not Financially Motivated
“I believe that he is super genuine about everything that he's doing. Meaning, I believe he's genuine in his intent, and I believe his he is actually mission-driven when he's doing this.”
Shaan Puri Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 1:03:39 We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
Aug 23, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Parr Ranked Number Three on the Rejuvenation Olympics Biological Age Leaderboard
“I did this test, Sean, and I scored great. So great that I messaged Brian Johnson, and I was like, this is wrong, right? And he's like, well, no, like, you're, you, you're like the number three on the Rejuvenation Olympics.”
Sam Parr Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 2:17 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Aug 23, 2024
Disclosure
Smith Owns an At-Home Penile Shockwave Therapy Machine
“I'm starting doing this treatment where it's like shockwave therapy that you shockwave your penis, et cetera. And he's like, I'm going once a month, et cetera. I'm like, dude, I have that machine in my house.”
Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 11:13 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
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