Who Is Bryan Johnson? Tech Tycoon Spending Rs 16.5 Cr A Year On Anti-Aging Shuts Down Startup
Bryan Johnson is shutting down his anti-aging startup Blueprint due to financial losses. Despite spending $2M annually, it failed to attract customers.
The thought of eternal life has always remained a matter of curiosity for humanity since ages. Philosophers have debated the ethics and values of being immortal, while scientists from the Renaissance to modern ages have explored and experimented to find an elixir of immortality, though tantalizing it might seem. Not much success was found on the topic.
Meanwhile, when tech entrepreneurs take over the reins of innovation and experimentation, the sci-fi thought of age-reversing has spawned among some of them. What has been thought to be a figment of fiction and imagination could be seen as a possibility if the right amount of capital and research is invested religiously.
One of such entrepreneurs Bryan Johnson has put all sweat and blood to make age-reversing a possibility in the 21st century. But his efforts all went into vain when he decided to shut down his startup. The reason of the shut down is the financial losses piling up.
In a recent interview with Wired, 47-year-old tech entrepreneur and wellness enthusiast Bryan Johnson revealed he is 'so close" to shutting down or selling Blueprint, his much-publicized anti-aging startup. The company, which aimed to drastically slow down or even reverse aging, has made headlines for Johnson's extreme and often controversial longevity experiments.
Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author known for founding Braintree, a payment processing company that acquired Venmo in 2012 for $26.2 million and was later sold to PayPal for $800 million in 2013, with Johnson reportedly earning over $300 million from the sale. He also founded Kernel, a neurotech company developing brain-monitoring devices, and OS Fund, a venture capital firm investing in science and technology startups.
Johnson has gained significant media attention for his anti-aging initiative, 'Project Blueprint," where he spends approximately $2 million annually on a regimen involving a vegan diet, over 100 daily supplements, rigorous exercise, and experimental treatments like follistatin gene therapy (not FDA-approved) to reduce his biological age.
However, his dream-project fails to lure the customers and financiers as financial losses on the startup have mounted in recent times, leading to the decision to close it. The small it might seem, there is a small spark to kindle the full fire in the future.
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