Sperm Racing, Virality & The Fertility Crisis | Eric Zhu

Eric Zhu is the 17-year-old founder of Sperm Racing, the platform turning sperm performance into a competitive sport. He went viral as the high-school kid raising millions from a bathroom cubicle and has since turned taboo biology into one of the most watched experiments on the internet.In this episode, Eric breaks down male fertility, biology-as-sport, viral engineering, and how sperm speed tracks with sleep, diet, fitness and health optimization. We dive into the rise of performance biology, how to weaponize virality, and why the next frontier of human performance might start with the most taboo metric of all.Hosted by Mgoes → https://x.com/m_goes_distance---00:00 - Launching Sperm Racing04:15 - The New Status Game06:30 - Taboo Biology x Fertility Crisis9:55 - Sperm Tied to Sleep, Diet and Fitness17:15 - First Race Hits 450M views18:54 - Hustling VCs from a High-School Bathroom26:00 - The Tech Behind Sperm Racing32:20 - Don’t Die, Natalism, Planetary Issues39:11 - Humanity and Memes in AGI Age---The Accelerate Bio Podcast explores the future of human potential in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Subscribe for bi-weekly deep-dive interviews with founders, investors, and scientists shaping deeptech, science, AI, biotechnology, human enhancement, and more.Brought to you by BiohackerDAO - A community dedicated to exploring and funding frontier technologies in human enhancement.---Keywords: sperm racing, male fertility, fertility crisis, sperm health, virality, biology as sport, human performance, biohacking, internet virality, teen founder, startup story, health optimization, Eric Zhu, sperm performance, taboo biology