“First-principles thinking sets goals in known terms and then pursues them, inventing and learning new things as necessary, but it rarely uncovers brand new conceptual primitives of the kind which the world needs.”

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.