You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

You're here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

Alright, today's guest is the modern American rags to riches story. He started with nothing. His dad battled with drug addiction and the family was so broke that his mother often had to make his clothes, and yet despite that, he would go on to a mass nearly a billion dollars in wealth.

My question is how?

After spending two years in Ecuador as a Mormon missionary and seeing just how hard life could get, he returned home with a fresh perspective in a commitment to spending the rest of his life improving the lives of others.

To that end, he started his first company and paid his own way through college. That early success, however, was quickly met with some crushing failures, and the harder he worked on his businesses, the deeper he seemed to fall into depression.

A depression that would threaten to take his life nearly every day for an entire decade.

Always willing to do the hard things, however, he persevered, and in 2007, believing that he saw a way to disrupt the multi-billion dollar payment processing industry, he founded BrainTree.

As a solo founder, and with only the money he could save himself, he grew BrainTree into a beast that was twice named to the ink 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America, and was ultimately sold to PayPal for $800 million.

Giving him the resources he needed to make good in his promise to build a better future.

Armored with the belief that with the right tools of creation we can author any world we want, he has thrown himself into solving the grandest challenges that we face as a species.

He's pledged $200 million of his own money to building the tools required to expand our cognitive capabilities through his company Kernel, and through his investment house OS Fund.

He has set out to radically extend human life by backing the scientists and inventors that aim to benefit all of humanity by rewriting the very operating system of life.

So please help me in welcoming the man who was climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, climbed out of depression, become a pilot, started a family, and written a children's book all while building some of the most audacious companies in the world.

Brian Johnson.

Thank you.

Very good.

Very good.

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