Biological Engineering Infrastructure

Bryan Johnson invested in companies building fundamental infrastructure for biological engineering, aiming to create capabilities for engineering atoms, molecules, and organisms with the same reliability as software engineering.

Key Points:

• Core Vision:

  • Create global biological engineering infrastructure
  • Enable reliable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms
  • Mirror the success of software engineering but for biology

• Investment Focus Areas:

  • Synthetic biology engineering
  • DNA-based information storage (using DNA as nature's hard drive)
  • Nanotechnology (building structures atom by atom)
  • Foundational building blocks for biological engineering

• Real-World Application Example:

  • Investment in Ginkgo Bioworks
  • Company worked on mRNA vaccine during pandemic
  • Demonstrated value of having biological engineering infrastructure

• Investment Approach:

  • Invested $100M through fund
  • Target companies building fundamental infrastructure
  • Focus on companies that can serve as building blocks for humanity
  • Many investments are now breakeven or profitable

• Goal:

  • Enable rapid response to biological challenges
  • Create infrastructure for detection, remediation, and solution development
  • Build capacity to deploy engineers who can solve biological problems at scale