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Bryan Johnson

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“No, Tim, I just love this. We've had fantastic conversations over time. So this is fun to actually do this formally. And I really enjoy the friendship.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“OS fund co is where all of our investments are and I'm active on Twitter so happy to have ongoing discussions about the various things we talked about but”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Yeah. So we got in a four wheeler two weeks ago, my 11 and 9 year old, and I said, okay, I'm going to put your helmets on. I'm going to give you a two-minute lesson on how to go, how to go forward and how to go backwards, how to break. I'm going to give you some lessons like don't go into a ditch. Don't go on a hillside that you'll turn over. But I'm expecting you to now go out for five minutes and come back safely and tell me how you did it.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. In the flesh. So my daughter got on and she was in the mix of all this stuff, but I'm certainly of the philosophy that I'd like kids to go explore and do on their own. And if they make mistakes, that's fine. They can learn. But if there's too much inherent protection structure that they just forego those learning experiences.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your friends are for. Exactly. But there was like two camps of parents that broke out. One camp was like, no way is my child going to be involved in this terribly dangerous endeavor, which is a reasonable thing to say, right? Because it's pretty dangerous. Someone could get really hurt. And there were other parents more like myself like, look, they all figured out. Like if they get hurt, I'm sure that they'll recover and it'll be a great experience for them to learn about big objects moving very fast and these principles of physical.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So This is up for opinion, of course, but we were at a, my five-year-old had this little party for her preschool, and I took her over and we were at the park. And there was this merry-go-round. And there was like 20 kids on the merry-go-round. It's like there were some older kids going really fast around. And like sometimes a kid would fall and like fall in the dirt and get trampled by their friends”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But at least we have this moment where we can connect on really serious questions and they can explore these philosophically, which I have found to be beneficial in both their development but also our relationship.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so when we sit down for dinner, I always have a question for them. Like last week on Saturday night, we had this discussion of what does it mean to be good? And they're jamming. Like, you know, it's like 11, 9, and 5, and they're jamming on this question of what it means to be good. And I raise all kinds of questions like what you think is good is not necessary, what I think is good. We have these different interpretations. And is there a single definition of good? And so my five-year-old's raising her hand, offering up her input, which is amazing, but they walk away, they're surprisingly bright and have these amazingly good insights. So I tried to have these significant conversations with them. And sometimes it lasts like 10 minutes before chaos breaks out in the house, you know.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, six groups of students within the class, and they each are making like a three to four minute documentary on the process of testing the scientific method of is technology in the classroom a positive for a negative experience or what are the pros and cons. And so I'm working with his teacher to do that and doing the filmmaking and plotting out the storyboarding and identifying what the scientific method looks like. And that gives me all these opportunities to talk about everything that's relevant in his life in ways that are meaningful. And so when we have conversations, I'm not just saying, hey, how's your day? Fine. And that's the end of conversation, right? But it's relevant. And so the same is true with my fourth grader and my daughter who's in preschool. But I would say parents that get engaged in the children's lives to be truly relevant, to understand the underlying context of who they like, who they dislike, who the friends, who are the people who are saying mean things to them, what are they worried about in school? So that's been...”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My personal philosophy is I try to be relevant in my kids' lives. And so, for example, in my sixth grader, he's in a public school and they don't have any technology in the school. And so I've been working with the principal to bring technology in the school. And the way we're doing it is we're running a test in his class where they are using the scientific method to say if we bring technology into the classroom, will it improve our educational experience? And so they have to test it out and use pros and cons and go through the whole process. And then each of their six groups making a documentary. And so I'm with the teacher working with...”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know, one thing, so I do a lot of projects with my kids. And like, for example, we started a few businesses together and we wrote a children's book together. And as I think about the coming generation of makers and doers, that they're the people who will define our world so dramatically. If I think about who they aspire to be like and what kind of things they want to do and how we write the operating systems of their aspirations and endeavors, I think that I'm encouraged by watching my own kids grow up, that I see a bright future that we can trust these incredibly powerful tools of creation can be used for good things. They go to subjective, of course, but that we can actually change humanity and fundamental ways and that the rise in generation, if we do it right, will have amazing abilities to contribute to our well-being.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No matter what comes your way, no matter how hard things fill. That I have the power to overcome, and be at peace with it.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have gifted a good man to quite a few people and Shackleton and Victor Frankl's book. The good man I gift because if we contemplate how like I wonder what would my son or daughter say about me I kind of biography would they write? And that's a model for me I would want. Shackleton, that's how I want to behave in life. And Frankl, that's how his basic point is, no matter the conditions we surround ourselves in, we can author our life. We can author however we respond. And then I guess I'd also throw in there Siddhartha.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And suggest that I was going to come out and pound the table and yell at you about that. But I mean, like, these attributes are held by people within companies who are starting their companies, who are working with large institutions, right? But it's just inherently people who can create, do, and see what others cannot or will not do, right? That they will blaze something that others will follow or benefit from”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I guess we have a lot of conversations with people who want to start their own thing. And one of my favorite questions to ask is, is this an itch or is it burning? So it's just an itch, it's not sufficient. And it gets to this point of how badly do you really want it? And for me, I burned the boats. Like there was no way I was going to get a job. And so failure was never an option. I had to make this work. And I did have jobs on the way, but that was just simply to pay the bills. Failure just wasn't a solution I would accept. And so I think I want to get at entrepreneurs that how badly do you want it? What will you do to get there?”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Someone willing to, I think entrepreneurs and explorers have a lot in common with Shackleton that they chart, they head off an uncharted territory. and they maintain this ability to adapt to circumstances that are chaotic, unknown, and extremely challenging. And they can maintain some order in all the chaos. to actually achieve a goal.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, so Let's come back to that. I know I'm going to have a lot of examples to think of people who have faced near uncertain death countless times. Somehow they figured out to maneuver.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'd say actually a bunch of names pop up. People I've invested in at the OS fund. So, I mean, Craig Venter, a human longevity, Peter Diamandis there as well, Josh Tetrick, Hampton Creek. Jason Kelly in Go Bioworks, Daniel Fong at Lycell, Scott Phoenix at Vicarius. I mean, we have a great roster of incredibly passionate entrepreneurs, Mustafa Soleiman from DeepMind. I wasn't an investor there, but I find him immensely inspiring. But these entrepreneurs think differently about the world, and they're going after extremely hard challenges. And I'd say they're audacious and determined and very aggressive.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, explain it, please. Okay, so on one side is Gandalf the Gray, and the other side is Harry Potter, and they have their wands and staffs pointed up and it's exploding energy in the middle of the air with this book that's open, blank pages with a pen. And then above it in graffiti is the word dream. And the concept behind it is JR Tolkien and JK Rowling created worlds that we inhabited through the tool of text. They wrote this stuff down and then we inhabited. So they literally authored worlds. And we have that same ability as entrepreneurs to build companies. And everything we do, we have that, especially our tools of creation now that we're investing in it at the OS fund. So I wanted to use pop culture figures because I wanted my kids to see this, that they have that ability to do that in life, that they don't need to say yes to the default options, that they can carve their own path. And even though it's incredibly hard, it's going to be painful.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but the, so one of the driving philosophies of life, thing that drives me the most is I guess I find the most beautiful that we have the ability to author life in life. But we can choose not to take default routes. We can choose to take different paths that we can design and do whatever we want. And that's why I find entrepreneurship so appealing is that You get to design your own world. And so in my office, actually, I hired, I commissioned a graffiti artist”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I love biographies I read probably a hundred plus biographies. And I don't know if there's one person in particular, maybe just a collection. Actually, no, actually I'd say there's a few. One we talked about before Shackleton. He resonates with me at a deep level. I read this book called A Good Man by Mark Shriver about his dad Sard Shriver, who worked in the Johnson administration and started the Peace Corps. And he was a remarkable man, an exceptional father, a good friend, loyal, and he is a mental model of the kind of person I want to be in life. Victor Frankl's man's search for happiness.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but that's like what I love about the friendships I have is I can go into a conversation and I know when I leave two things will happen. One is they will have challenged my mental models that I can't challenge, I can't see my mental models and I can't challenge myself very well. But someone else can see it so clearly and they can just call it out, right? And number two is when I leave the conversation saying like I want to become a better person, right? And I want to do more in life and I want to work harder. Those are the two things I think I value the most in the attractions. I want to be that for other people, right? That when they bring something to me, I can flip it and say, yeah, here's a different model for you to contemplate. And two, hopefully when they leave, they say, you know what? Yes, like I can do this and I've got that much more energy to go about it.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've gotten so much better over the years. Now I just call a friend and just say, you know what? I'm feeling overwhelmed and I feel terrible and I don't think I can do this. And right, just saying it out loud, it's like, yeah, I actually can. I got this, but I just need to get that off my chest that I'm all right. And so when I deal with, when I work with entrepreneurs now, people I'm investing in or otherwise, I say like, if you want to chat at any time of the day and say anything, right, no judgment on my side, just say it out loud, do it. And I think there's just hard to do hard things, I guess, as Ben Horwitz would say. and having the ability to be vulnerable and honest and transparent and raw with other people is immensely helpful for me.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fascinating Exactly. Not chosen it. Just like restaurants, I think put the most expensive pricey item in the top right corner to say like, here's a $75 option. Everything else is cheap at $32.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, exactly. So I started reading all these books and I became increasingly convinced of my own what is fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life. And once I became aware of that, I think I became much softer in my opinions and confidence levels in life where I I want to question thoroughly everything I do all the time, and of course I miss all layers a lot of time, but I try to be present in knowing that when I make a decision, there's all kinds of layers behind it, many of which are probably flawed. And if I went back and evaluated it. So I suppose it's just being present and knowing it exists and how flawed we are in our abilities when really we think we're Perfectly logical and consistent all the time, we're just not.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And get shocked. Let me think about that. So many. I mean, I guess. Being human is remarkably tough, right? Because we just so like you and I before this discussion, we were talking about all the funny, irrational things you and I both do that's inconsistent with our thought patterns. And I guess a couple years back, maybe a decade ago, I got into irrational behavior, reading Dan Aureli's book, particularly Irrational and Thinking Fast and Slow.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And so, what I always try to wonder is where is that in my life? Like, what am I assuming that isn't visible, that I cannot see?”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so at Braintree, one of the principles Consistently communicated was challenge all assumptions. And the story that I accompanied with it was there's five monkeys in a room, there's a basket of bananas at the top, and the monkeys, of course, want to climb the ladder to get the banana, but every time a monkey tries, they're all sprayed with cold water. And so after a few times being sprayed by cold water, the monkeys learn don't climb up the ladder to get the bananas because we're going to get sprayed by cold water. And so they take one monkey out and put a new monkey in. And the new monkey, of course, sees a bananas. It's like, hey, like, I'm going to go grab a banana. But when it tries to go up the ladder, the other monkeys grab it and pull it back. I don't want to get sprayed by cold water. You're a new guy here. So don't mess with me. Let me teach you the rules. Exactly. So then they systematically pull every monkey out. Now you have five new monkeys in. Anytime a new monkey comes in and tries to climb the ladder.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's why I think it's such a hugely important area to focus because When people make decisions, you're looking really at the surface layer, but the beliefs and values that are driving that are embedded very deeply. Oftentimes, that's why, for example, like social operating systems are so incredibly powerful, but also they're invisible. They just are woven into the fabric of our lives and we don't know they exist. And when we do see them as existing, we just consider them as givens or fixed. And so what we're hoping to do is to call attention to what they are, right? These massive, powerful influences in our life that drive our decisions and we don't even know it that are subconscious. Exactly. And that identifying them that they really are social technologies that are driving these decisions. And so if we go to use, I guess a technical term, like if we go deeper in the stack, we go down to the operating system level, like what are these core beliefs and these core values? Where do they come from? What are they assuming?”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going to have some really big questions to answer. And we have to decide as a society through our reconciliation systems, do we modify our genetics in our children? Do we do GMO, right? What is appropriate for AI in terms of what people build? So we have really big questions to answer. And I think that one of the best areas we could focus on would be how these social operating systems are constructed and calling attention to them as being technologies that can in fact be built, changed. Better aligned with the realities of our current time”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Poorly worded questions In the first place, so if we start with this premise that we have these incredibly powerful tools of creation, we can program anything. That obviously means and couple that up with we have this distributed environment now where anybody can pull up a computer terminal in anywhere in the world and at whatever age and program, either through biology or computer software. So we have all these tools. So we have a world full of makers that have these powers. So with that, what you build affects me and what I build affects you. And so one thing that I'm exploring now with US fund is what I call our social operating systems. And there are systems of cooperation and reconciliation. So in that category falls like governance and capitalistic systems, right?”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Organism produce so it's like a different food product. Exactly. It's this new era of industrial engineering where it's going to change all the processes we created during the first industrial revolution.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, so they design the organism just like you take yeast for brewing beer, right? You take an organism and you can alter within the production of that organism what it produces. So it's actually a natural in production. You're just altering the organism that produces it. So it's not synthetic biology.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we just made an investment in Ginkgo Bioworks, which they're basically making biology programmable. So just like we use computer code today to render a website or process a credit card transaction or fly an autopilot system in an airplane, we can program the same thing in biology. Today they're doing fragrances and flavors. They're producing in a lab that otherwise would be required in nature. And as we climb up the complexity scale, we can do much more complicated things like work on antibiotic resistance and carbon capture. But the idea, Tim, like your biology, I'm biology, our world runs on biology. The fact that this could be a programming language, we could actually predictably use is remarkable.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, human longevity led by Craig Venter is they're trying to radically extend healthy human life into the hundreds. And they're doing it by using the whole human genome and then adding data like the metabiome and phenotype data and then using advanced machine learning to learn about disease and create personal therapeutics. If they're successful, it would change medicine.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. So, just like a computer has an operating system at its core that determines how it works, and then there's applications that sit on top, everything in life has an operating system.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's a metaphor I like a lot that the biggest changes in history, the biggest improvements in history have happened at what I call the operating system level. So for example, like germ theory, that we tried to figure out what was causing disease and death for a long time. And when we figured out there was this thing like bacteria that caused infections and death. And once we figured out sterilizations, antibiotics and vaccines and good personal hygiene, we radically extended healthy human life, but it was finding out there was this core problem of bacteria. Every major change we've had has been at this level. And so instead of playing with things at a different level, what we think about is the companies we invest in are doing World changing things at the operating system level. So if they're successful in”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literally build anything today. And so as I realized that, I thought this is one of the biggest moments in the history of mankind, or humankind. How do we, the biggest question for me was, what kind of world are we going to build? And that's when I started the OS fund is trying to invest in these tools of creation that will so dramatically affect the kind of world we build.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so the context is, I guess at 21 I made that goal that I wanted to spend my life improving people's lives. And over the 14 years or so as I was building my companies, I thought a lot about this. Like, what would it look like? What would it feel like? What it tastes like? What areas would I focus on? And I looked through thousands and thousands of ideas. And I mean, I was always thinking about it. And I studied during that time a lot of about science and technology. The realization I came to is that the reason why our time and place is so unique in the arc of humanity is we literally now have the tools to build the kind of world we can dream of. So if you take computer software and biology, genomics, AI, virtual reality, 3D printing, we can literally program our existence. So I think oftentimes of like DaVinci where he had his great sketchbooks where he designed a flying machine and he had these really amazing ideas, but he couldn't build it. He didn't have the tools.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He built, I'm not even sure what company he built, but he was enormously wealthy. And of course the Marriotts are in there as well. But there were a few families in the community that had accumulated significant resources and I think Huntsman had as a cancer institute at the University of Utah and others that they were able to move the needle in significant ways. That other people just couldn't. And I thought that was really remarkable that you could make huge contributions potentially to humanity.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In that rough range, I admired people who had I guess I had a number of buckets in my mind of who I admired, but one bucket that appealed to me because I thought I could potentially be like them was those who had acquired a significant amount of resources through building businesses and were now using those resources to do good in the world, that they had freedom of time. They didn't need to show up for a job and they didn't write all that kind of stuff. And so I identified with that because I think I thought it matched up with my potential skill sets and something I could potentially achieve in life. So it was freedom of time to do the things that you cared about the most in life”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Basically, yeah, you go up and he's like, Hey, so if you want to get your license, you have to perform the following maneuvers. Like, here's a steep turn, you know, 30 degrees. And so he was just showing me basically how the plane operated and what I would need to do.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Toilet because it loops and loops and loops, and if you try anything else, it just loops, even when you're having conversations, like you're as obsessed with trying to build your company. And so one day I had a hard day at work and I was walking home. I thought, you know what? I'm going to go fly an airplane. Like, maybe that will do the trick. And I did this discovery flight. And the guy took me up and he's like, if you can do the following things, you can fly. And he did like this really hard turn up and down. I got sick. And I was like, oh, I can never do that. So crazy and hard. But I thought about it the next morning. I thought, no, I can actually do this. And so I started flying. And I lost myself in aviation. I absolutely love it. And so that really helped that I could find a different place to park my mind and focus.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Over the past couple years, I've created these friendships like, you know, like you and I have, where we can talk as if we were journaling. Right. I mean, to get to the real raw and good stuff of life. But I think that that would have been very helpful during those darkest times, during the moments where it was the hottest.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I own the success, it was all me, and I didn't have any co founders. So it's not to say people on my team didn't shoulder that, right? But as the founder, you do fill an extra”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hours of your day. Yeah, so I guess if I think about the broader context of life, I mean, I had. Two children, when I started Braintree and then I had three by the end. And we had my first two children were collicky, so they're crying all night. And so not being able to sleep very well at night and get in the next day and going to work and then dealing with all the stuff you deal with. It was a pretty tough time in life. And, I mean, there were some dark moments. I guess something you and I have talked about on our walks is that I generally view advice. I'm very skeptical of advice because it's so contextual and it can be deceptively unhelpful because you don't understand what's packed into that advice. But one piece of advice I think is helpful for entrepreneurs that I wish someone would have told me is the importance of surrounding yourself with fellow founders, people who get you and understand you, that all those years as a founder, I felt like I owned everything. I owned energy. I owned growth.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think I could identify it. It was just so gradual over time that we started these companies like Uber and like Airbnb. They hit their growth stride. And it was amazing that we were powering all their payments. And it was just so gradual and slow because companies come on brand new and it takes them a couple years to ramp up to start processing significant sales. So I don't know if I could identify a single point, just this slow, steady build.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a different vibe in the company. People are kind of reflecting upon the weak, the tensions kind of build up. We're going into the weekend. Monday morning is a little bit frantic, but Friday I find people are more pensive and reflective and that it was a good time for us to dig deep and find out what was really bothering us and I guess regroup on the essence of why we existed. That we weren't just there to make a paycheck, we were there to build something exceptional and to continually talk about that was important”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Reported, I would tell stories. I would tell stories about people in exceptional efforts. Now, it's always a double-edged sword because if you tell a story about one person, you're not telling a story about the other person. And one person is always going to feel left out because I was just involved as him or her in doing this. And so it is tricky. But I always highlight, I did a weekly emails as well. And I wanted to tell stories of people who went above and beyond the call of duty, either in... Building our software or a customer service interaction, or even helping a coworker do something, and those stories resonated with people, right? They saw what their peers were doing and it was influential on how they behaved. So I wanted to build a culture of a certain behavior, and I told stories to reinforce that.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, like I hear you. You did a good job. Thank you for being honest and transparent because that's what I asked of you. And you don't have the power to fix that yourself. This is like a more community problem, so it's in my.”
2015-06-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #81: The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT