“Because I run Kernel, my thoughts are focused on understanding how to improve our cognitive abilities. Of all our cognitive capacities, I see our ability to predict and act according to future goals as perhaps the most important to focus on.”

American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author

Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author. He is the founder and former CEO of Kernel, a company that develops devices to monitor and record brain activity, and of OS Fund, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage science and technology companies. His work sits at the intersection of business, science, and technology. Through Kernel and OS Fund, he has been associated with efforts to build tools for understanding the brain and to back new companies in scientific fields. He is also known as a writer and author.