Four Pillars of Anti-Aging w/ Blair LaCorte, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #815
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Blair LaCorte is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging—the world’s first biomedical research institution dedicated solely to understanding aging and age-related diseases, and the largest independent scientific institute in the Bay Area. A seasoned leader and strategist, Blair has a track record of transforming companies across five industries, leveraging his expertise in change management to drive operational alignment, scale, and market leadership.
Most recently, he led AEye’s $1.5B IPO, advancing the company’s mission to enable safe, reliable vehicle autonomy. Prior to that, Blair served as Global President of PRG, the world’s largest live event technology and services company; CEO of XOJET, one of the fastest-growing aviation companies in history; and Senior Advisor and Operating Partner at TPG, a leading private equity firm managing over $97 billion in global investments. His earlier career includes executive roles at technology innovators such as VerticalNet, Savi Technologies, Autodesk, and Sun Microsystems.
Blair is an active board member and advisor to organizations spanning science, business, and education, including the Positive Coaching Alliance, the Kairos Society, the Graduate Business Foundation, and alma maters Dartmouth College and the University of Maine. His leadership has been recognized by Fast Company, Ad Age, NASA, and the ITAS “100 Most Influential Leaders in Transportation” list. His insights have been featured in Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and on major networks including ABC, Bloomberg, CNN, and CNBC.
Holding multiple patents across hardware, software, communications, security, and defense, Blair is also an astronaut-in-training and is scheduled to fly with Virgin Galactic. Outside of his professional pursuits, he is a dedicated father to three sons and the owner of a slightly anxious Weimaraner named Bella.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug Blair LaCourt. It's coming to the podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | Wildly fascinating conversation. We kind of hit on a wide range of topics, but he is the vice |
| 0:12.0 | chair and boarder directors at the Buck Institute for Research on aging. And we spent a bunch of |
| 0:18.4 | time talking about anti-aging, kind of like his four core |
| 0:21.1 | principles. And a lot of like a lot of people look at the aging side of things. They talk about muscle |
| 0:25.6 | death. He has a not a wildly different perspective, but a different framework. Plus an idea |
| 0:30.9 | on connection with human beings that I think is very fascinating. But on top of that, he just took |
| 0:36.7 | another company public. |
| 0:38.4 | He's big into the AI world and all kinds of fun stuff. |
| 0:41.7 | So this is, it's a little bit wandering, but wildly fascinating human being here. |
| 0:47.2 | As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapidhealthreport.com. |
| 0:50.2 | That's where Dan Garner, Dr. Andy Galpin, are doing a free lab, |
| 0:52.7 | Lifestyle Performance Analysis, and you can access that at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show. Welcome to Barbos Shug. I'm Anders Warner, Doug Lars, and Coach Travis Mash, Blair LaCorp. We were, I had to stop you. Anytime I have to stop the guests from talking, |
| 1:13.2 | we're in for a good show because that means got a lot of good stuff to say. First off, in your bio, it says you just had an IPO for $1.5 billion. |
| 1:20.0 | That's a, the B is a level of business. |
| 1:23.3 | Not many people get to. |
| 1:25.3 | And I promise to the audience, |
| 1:27.4 | we're not just going to talk about IPOs, but anti-aging as well. |
| 1:31.7 | But I'd love to, what company did you just take public? |
| 1:35.1 | Sure. |
| 1:35.5 | Well, it actually was a couple of years ago. |
| 1:38.9 | So three years ago, I actually retired two years, well, a year and a half ago. |
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