Bryan Johnson, The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, Tells His Life Story (Flashback)

In this full-length interview, Bryan Johnson, the founder of Venmo and CEO of Kernel, looks back on his upbringing in a Mormon community during his childhood in Provo, Utah. The 45-year-old debunks the misconceptions about polygamy in the Mormon community before discussing his missionary work in Ecuador and how the experience shifted his outlook on life to wanting to help people. After touching on his collegiate stint at Brigham Young University, Bryan discusses a few startup companies he established before looking back on the successful launch of a Chicago-based payment processing company called Braintree and selling it to PayPal. Moving along, Bryan explains why he stepped away from Braintree before detailing why he chose to invest $54 million into a neurotechnology company called Kernel and the groundbreaking ways the company's technology can measure/evaluate the human brain. He then claims that the company's technology can evaluate CTE while a person is still alive. As the introspective conversation moves along, Byran details his methods for reverse engineering the aging process. To hear more, scroll up and press play.