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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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…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
Johnson: PayPal stopped innovating, leaving developers desperate for modern payment tools
“PayPal had Growing up during the internet, but they had stopped really innovating for a couple of years. And so developers didn't have the tools they liked.”
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…”
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 …”
Johnson: Human conscious self-awareness is an inadequate sensor for brain health
“Most people think that their self-awareness Is basically the sensor system that captures their brain. Like because I'm conscious and because I can feel when I have a headache, it basically is a robust enough sensor system to do it. And that's not correct. So m…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
Johnson: Braintree built Uber's original invisible checkout payment infrastructure
“We helped Uber do their no the payment experience where you get in the car, you arrive at your destination, you leave the car, no exchange of payment information, no signing of receipts, no printing out receipts.”
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'…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
Johnson: Kernel built a light-based neuroimaging helmet that sets up in one minute
“What we, at Kernel what we've done is we've built a neuroimaging helmet. Like you said, Sam, you just put it on your head. It takes one minute to set up. It uses light to measure the brain activity.”
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.”
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.”
The other half of the tape: Bryan Johnson's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 136 times in 28 episodes on My First Million. 11 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 69Sam Parr 43Jack Smith 11Andrew Wilkinson 4Steph Smith 3Suleman "Suli" Ali 2Jess Mah 2Sheel Mohnot 1
Statements about Bryan Johnson, by other people (11)
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.”
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…”
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”
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.”
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,…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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2023 49 mentions in 9 episodes 5 per episode
- This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
- Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
- From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
- 99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525)
- Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 6 mentions in 1 episode
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388) | Nov 22, 2022 | 42m |