My proposition is that as entrepreneurs and investors, rather than focusing on doing good with technology, let's instead focus on building good… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I started Braintree when I was 27 years old, I bootstrapped the company for the first four years. And we were profitable… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
For years, sadly, I accepted the grind narrative associated with being an entrepreneur while building Braintree Venmo. Days without sleeping was legend.… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I started Kernel, a neuroenhancement company, personally investing $100M, to help ensure that humans and AI evolve together. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Most people start a business knowing what they're going to build, not trying to figure out what to do. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
In 2013 I sold my payments company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800 million, reaching a goal I set when 21. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
As much as I admire the greats of industry and technology, as a founder-CEO who built a company on the three pillars… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was building my payments company, Braintree, the online payments experience was awful. So you'd get a cab, and the wifi… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Running more than one company requires my decision-making scales to expand and contract accordingly. Is that helpful for both companies? Probably. Is… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
The founding fathers were great entrepreneurs. They shipped something akin to a software product: the first version of the 'ideological operating system'… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
The quicker we can make radically improving our brains the single highest priority of the human race, the more effective we will be to… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I burn inside with an ambition that feels out of place in the early 21st century. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
The discovery that we can program our existence and author our own lives has radically altered my life - transforming my identity, aspirations, and… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
When humans can measure something, the first thing that always happens: an ecosystem of ideas and, eventually, industry springs up around it. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
As much as I admire the greats of industry and technology, as a founder-CEO who built a company on the three pillars of culture,… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not a biohacker. I'm not an optimization person. I'm an explorer, about the future of being human. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
When we consider the future of the human species, we can do better than relying upon the least evolved, amygdalar, reptilian parts of our… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
One way to go about revolution is not trying to change the system within, but trying to build a new system. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I am insatiably curious and love surrounding myself with people with whom I can ask questions for hours. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Being ruthlessly honest is risky, awkward, and uncomfortable - for nearly all of us. There's really no getting around it. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
For political leaders, the tools of creation are powerful institutions, memorable words, enduring symbols, and perhaps most importantly, their own mythologized personas. Personas serve… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
At OS Fund, we don't invest in particular problems. Instead of trying to solve energy or climate change or the spread of disease, we… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
