Bryan Johnson invested in a health testing company that screened wealthy clients in their 50s and 60s. Most seemed healthy, but a surprising number had serious hidden conditions, what he calls "time bombs." This drove him to obsessively measure his own biomarkers to catch problems before they emerge.
So one of my first investments after Braintree Venmo was I invested in this company that was doing extensive health and wellness testing. So they would do all the biofluids and imaging. They had people coming through, mostly people in their 50s and 60s, who had the money to spend on this kind of thing. It was expensive. And there was a substantially large percentage of people who found a life threatening time bomb. And it was always such a shocking event because the people would inevitably say, I just did my full angiophysical. My doctor said, I'm all good, I feel great. And then they'd have this big thing, and then a lot of people had these wonderful stories where they'd get that thing addressed and life was okay. So when I started measuring myself, I wanted to know what was going to be my timing to finding my first time bomb. And when I did find it, how bad is it going to be.
