Who is Bryan Johnson?
Bryan Johnson is a well-known American professional entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer, and author. Johnson is the founder and CEO of Kernel and OS Fund. Kernel is a company that can monitor and record brain activity, and OS Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies.
Johnson was also the founder, chairman, and CEO of Braintree, a company that specializes in mobile and web payment systems for e-commerce companies. It acquired Venmo in 2012 for $26.2 million, the combined entity was purchased by PayPal for $800 million in 2013.
How old is Bryan Johnson?
Bryan is 46 years old as of 2023. He was born in Provo, Utah, United States on August 22, 1977. He shares his birthday with famous people including Dua Lipa, Morgan Adams, Kristen Wiig, Bill Parcells, James Corden, Sarah Magusara, Bill McCartney, Cindy Williams, and Honor Blackman, among others.
Bryan Johnson Family
Who are Bryan Johnson’s parents?
Bryan Johnson was born in Provo, Utah to his parents and brought up in Springville, Utah. His parents divorced and he lived with his mother and his stepfather, the owner of a trucking company.
Does Bryan Johnson have siblings?
Johnson was born to his parents as the middle child of five children. He has four siblings, three brothers, and a sister.
Bryan Johnson Education
He joined and studied at Springville High School, where he graduated. Johnson attended Brigham Young University, where he earned a BA in International Studies in 2003. He later graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an MBA in 2007.
Bryan Johnson Interests
Johnson was brought up as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but exited the Church at the age of 34. He is a pilot and enjoys climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, and also Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa.
Bryan Johnson Wife
Johnson is currently married to his beautiful wife, artist and producer Taryn Southern. The couple is happily married with three children together.
Bryan Johnson Kids
Johnson and his wife have three children together in their marriage. He has not shared any information about his children with the media.
Bryan Johnson Measurements
Johnson has a well-built, muscular, and physically fit body with a height of 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) and weighs 68 kg (149 lbs).
Bryan Johnson Career
Bryan released three startups between 1999 and 2003. The first, which sold cell phones, assisted him in paying his way through Brigham Young University. In the business, he employed other college students to sell service plans together with cell phones. Bryan, therefore, received around a $300 commission on each sale.
He also began two other businesses. Inquist, a VOIP company he co-founded with three other partners, with combined features of Vonage and Skype. The company concluded operations in 2001. Following this, Johnson joined his brother and another partner on a $70 million real estate project in 2001. However, the project did not achieve sales goals.
Bryan Johnson Braintree
In 2007, Bryan founded Braintree. It was 47th on Inc. magazine’s 2011 list of the 500 fastest-growing companies and 415th in 2012. The same year, it bought Venmo, an app that allows users to send and receive money from each other electronically, for $26.2 million. The company then revealed that it was processing $12 billion in payments annually, with $4 billion of that on mobile by September 2013. Briefly afterward, the company was acquired by PayPal, then part of eBay, for $800 million on September 26, 2013.
Bryan Johnson OS Fund
Johnson revealed the creation of the OS Fund, which he backed with $100 million of his personal capital in October 2014. The venture capital fund invests in companies that use artificial intelligence and machine learning in fields such as advanced materials, computationally derived therapeutics, genomics, diagnostics, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology. The fund has invested in companies such as NuMat Technologies, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Arzeda.
Bryan Johnson Kernel
Bryan then founded Kernel in 2016, investing $100 million of his own money to launch the company. The company then shifted to building hardware that measures electrical and hemodynamic signals produced by the brain. It demonstrated a pair of helmet-like devices that can see and record brain activity in 2020. He hopes to bring the brain online with Kernel. Studies may consist of Alzheimer’s disease, concussions, aging, meditation states, and strokes. The company has stated that the devices may be used to help paralyzed people communicate, or people with mental health challenges access new therapies. He had raised $5.3 million from outside investors by July 2020, after his investment of $54 million in the company since its inception.
Bryan Johnson Blueprint
He revealed Project Blueprint on October 13, 2021. An endeavor to measure his 70+ organs and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of each.
Bryan Johnson’s Published works
Bryan has published 2 children’s books: Code 7: Cracking the Code for an Epic Life (2017) and The Proto Project: A Sci-Fi Adventure of the Mind (2019). Code 7 has earned Wishing Shelf Book, Mom’s Choice, and Royal Dragonfly Book awards. The Proto Project has earned the Mom’s Choice and Purple Dragonfly Awards. He has also contributed one chapter to the book Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About Al from the People Building It (2018) by the American futurist Martin Ford.
Bryan Johnson’s Net Worth
American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer, and author Johnson is the founder, and CEO of Kernel, OS Fund, and Braintree. He has ventured into business for a number of years and has a net worth of $400 million as of 2023.