How Bryan Johnson built an $800 million dollar company | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

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Bryan Johnson is the founder and CEO of Kernel, OS Fund, and previously Braintree.
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[@alexpacyk3242]

New season of Californication seems alright

[@xmchughs]

🤣

[@Knytz]

HAHAAH

[@bryanzawlocki]

Dude went from selling credit cards door to door, then acquiring Venmo? Think we skipped a step somewhere.

[@ianormand1119]

Such an interesting conversation!

[@vozestoica8436]

Start your company Lex

[@yegorzakharov8514]

Pretty sure he said he started already, maybe I'm mistaken tho

[@basedchadthad9597]

A yt channel is a company

[@ibrahimalshweair7866]

What do you think this podcast is? By continuing to watch Lex you’re growing his company.

[@vozestoica8436]

@@pranamjshetty9658 what problem do You want to solve

[@mikeyd8474]

Where can you add unique value in the world? I like that question

[@iwastoldtherewaspie]

Lex is the new Rogan

[@Outplayedqt]

and Rogan is the new Howard Stern

[@TheSCPStudio]

Lex is Lex. Stop comparing people.

[@gozza1993]

@EpicSC why?

[@Knytz]

better

[@nutech1810]

Not even

[@bobdillan5761]

Lex is the new and improved hyper-intelligent Rogan.

[@phasematerialsresearch9319]

Get off your knees

[@44142726]

What model androids are these two

[@JeffRozanVideos]

As soon as you hear the world merchant you know the business owner is going to get scammed

[@yanwain9454]

anyone else way more interested in having the money this guy has as opposed to copying his health regimen?

[@nutech1810]

Why? He healthy unlike yourself with your dad bod

[@nicetrymate813]

Can someobody explain Lex's line "Bitcoin is the demotion of the conscious mind as well"

[@jaiv]

before that bryan talked about how the mind plays such a big role in diet and was criticising that, then mentioned how the current monetary system similarly involves a lot of human decisions and politics. he goes on to say how bitcoin and the building blocks of blockchain take the human choices away within the system and are a better way to form a monetary system. so lex gave that analogy

[@glencecil293]

So people said yes and didn't take the 100 dollars?????? Too much emphasis on the "I"

[@MikeKleinsteuber]

The problem with our society is that a guy gets lucky with one thing (OK, with a bit of intelligence and work added to the mix) and then we assume they're the saviour of man with answers to all our problems. So we interview them about everything we can think of and take their word as gospel. Look at Clive Sinclair, Elon Musk and now Johnson. As humans we're supposed to learn from our past but we never seem to.

[@englishspacitel258]

Because 99.9% of humans are stupids, and don't know what to do with their miserable lives so they will listen to everyone that the media will promotes as "GENIUS" and be mentality consequently physically enslaved by this people by doing and agreeing with every bullshit a celebrity/influential/economicaly powerful people say. People are just like any animal in nature that can be domesticated.

[@deardaughter]

Well said.

[@pt8292]

Right now more than in recent decades everybody looks up to moneymaking. Not enough people look up to doing great things or becoming great, that is now a bonus, an afterthought. This is why there is so much crap produced.

[@Mohammadparvazi]

You just said the greatest thing I could ask for. Absolutely right

[@RoyceJakob]

This is the take of a sheep

[@michaelgrayrn4579]

It will help the governments not pig out 24/7

[@remish-ey7dc]

Start your company lex

[@bluesque9687]

Let me try that strategy! But what if I end up losing a lot of 100 dollars? What if they listen to it only because they are going to get 100 dollars in the end? Because they already know the business and they have made up their minds! Could that happen?

[@daddybruce8084]

lol if they really say no at the end, you can just walk away and awkwardly ignore them when they ask for the $100

[@billjohns1416]

If Lex is a robot he at least can de robot other robots

[@user-nk9kw1ip4k]

"PayPal was the only company in payments making money. PayPal had a cost of payment of zero. PayPal's margins on a transaction were 3%." I don't get it. PayPal got zero from a transaction but also 3%?

[@nutech1810]

It is free to send a payment. However, there is a 3% for products and services.

[@user-nk9kw1ip4k]

@@nutech1810 Thanks, but are you sure? Because after relistening and thinking about it, I 've decided that the point is that the PayPal/Braintree customers were, as Bryan said, using checking accounts instead of bank cards to operate within the system... and so it's PayPal/Braintree who had a cost payment of zero - because they, in their turn, didn't have to pay a bank a commission for processing those payments. EDIT: After all, a payment is also a "transaction".

[@henryclinton9317]

Well I think the market will recover quicker than expected because I've been coming across articles of investors making as much as $350,000 within months and i'd really appreciate it if anyone could share tips and clues on how to make this much profit.

[@lucythompson5841]

one strategy is betting against the market which can be really profitable but first of all, you'll need to study the market intensely.

[@jamesmaduabuchi6100]

I agree, experience does pay off

[@henryclinton9317]

who is your financial coach, do you mind hooking me up?

[@henryclinton9317]

thanks for sharing , found her website and it really impressive . hope she replies me soon because i dropped a message for her

[@messagemaps]

Lmao at this ad

[@simamkelelibalele8361]

not a human being

[@Knytz]

is that a compliment or jeaulousy?

[@sleepysatellite1326]

This guy looks unhealthy and unhappy. I don’t think that his anti-age works to be honest

[@cathalbutler]

Thank you for being honest

[@lars5288]

It simply doesn't work. If you see him in videos from this year, he drastically aged and this not well. He's a rich boy living his eating disorder and paying doctors to give him the illusion of being part of a science experiment. He doesn't pay any psychological therapist...

[@Brancaalice]

Well, it hard think he unhappy with that multimillions. He is unique of his kind.

[@porchmonkey5774]

@@lars5288How is that anytime I come to a video, you’re rambling on about boys?

[@popcrnshower]

This dude making it sound like he found the 4th dimension. All he did was remove payment fees for consumers. Banks were too cheap to do it so he did it himself.

[@VinceVintage]

Why didn’t you do it then?

[@ph_hacker_d]

It’s always obvious once it’s done. But at the end of the day, execution is the key. He did it. Instead of saying “all he did”, appreciate it. Learn from it. And do the same “obvious” things in your own life

[@DearDextra]

always one negative nelly!

[@player111q7]

Annddd...You think that it's easy to do? "All he did" lol

[@thetruebluedeath]

I'll save you 16 minutes. He had rich or upper middle class parents. That's how 99% of them do it.

[@basedchadthad9597]

is that in the video or a guess?

[@thetruebluedeath]

@@basedchadthad9597 A guess but not far from the truth. Would have never guessed Mormon though.

[@basedchadthad9597]

I googled, his step dad owned a trucking company. so yes you are right

[@wajihbec1087]

I think that definitely makes it way easier. But Working smart and working hard are still very necessary, and some would say luck is needed as well.

[@basedchadthad9597]

@@wajihbec1087 I have been close with a few millionaire small biz owners. None at this level of hundreds of millions. Anyway they were all children of business owners. My guess is 1. they were raised with a certain mentality 2. They learned business by osmosis just watching and absorbing “game” from their parents 3. They believed they could because their parents did it so they felt like it was meant for them and possible 4. Their parents funded them 5. They know if they try and fail they can always go back to rich millionaire parents so they can take high risk with confidence