Johnson was also the founder, chairman and CEO of Braintree, [8] a company specializing in mobile and web payment systems for e-commerce companies. Braintree acquired Venmo in 2012 for $26.2 million; the combined entity was acquired by PayPal for $800 million in 2013. [9] [10]

Jan 28, 2025 · No, Bryan Johnson did not create Venmo. Venmo was founded by Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail in 2009, long before it was acquired by Braintree in 2012. The story of Venmo’s creation is rooted in the founders’ desire to find …

Jan 1, 2025 · After walking away with $300 million from selling his payment-processing company Braintree (which had acquired Venmo) in 2013, he spent a total of $4 million developing a life-extension system...

Sep 20, 2023 · He got married, had three children, and in 2007 he founded Braintree, a payment-processing company. Braintree acquired Venmo five years later.

Mar 9, 2024 · Johnson founded an eCommerce payments company called Braintree, which acquired Venmo for $26.2 million in 2012, and he sold the combined company to PayPal for $800 million the following year.

After selling my company Braintree Venmo for $800 million, I traveled back in time to my 21 year old dreams of doing something impactful for the human race. I wondered if we may be the first generation to not die.

Founder & CEO @KernelCo. Also founder @OSFund & @Braintree / @venmo.

Bryan Johnson is the founder and CEO of Kernel, builder of two next-generation, non-invasive brain-machine interfaces. Johnson was the founder/CEO of Braintree Venmo, which PayPal acquired for $800M in 2013; and of OS Fund, where he invested $100M in the predictable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms.

Bryan is the Founder/CEO of Kernel, OS Fund and (formerly) Braintree Venmo. Bryan believes that quantifying, exploring and understanding the human brain and mind is the most consequential opportunity in history.