{"id":49297,"date":"2026-04-19T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-spoke-with-bryan-johson-for-business-insiders-long-play-event-he-had-a-lot-to-say-about-silicon-valleys-celibacy-stigma\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:01:09","slug":"i-spoke-with-bryan-johson-for-business-insiders-long-play-event-he-had-a-lot-to-say-about-silicon-valleys-celibacy-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-spoke-with-bryan-johson-for-business-insiders-long-play-event-he-had-a-lot-to-say-about-silicon-valleys-celibacy-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"I spoke with Bryan Johson for Business Insider&#8217;s Long Play event. He had a lot to say about Silicon Valley&#8217;s celibacy stigma."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69e25482a98bc8fdc096bd07?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Bryan Johnson onstage pointing his finger into the audience.\"\/><figcaption>Bryan Johnson speaking onstage at Business Insider&#039;s The Long Play event in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Tammy Horton\/Nikki Ritcher<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>You can sign up for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\/newsletter\/insider-today\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Longevity secrets with Bryan Johnson<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Thirty seconds into my conversation with Bryan Johnson on Tuesday night, the longevity influencer suggested Business Insider was trying to kill the audience.<\/p>\n<p>We had an open bar in San Francisco&#039;s Exploratorium for our first Long Play event, and booze is a big no-no if you want to live forever like him.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The idea that alcohol is a relaxant that makes your life better is a myth,&quot; he said. The much healthier option would have been serving psychedelic mushrooms, he added. Stay tuned for our menu at our next Long Play event in October.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to live longer, Johnson, 48, told the audience, is to have more sex. He has been sharing long, lurid posts on X about his sex life with his girlfriend and cofounder, Kate Tolo, 30 (who sat in the front row), and told me he does this because he&#039;s writing &quot;an instructional manual on how to have sex,&quot; which he says too many people need today.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco is known for its celibacy \u2014 as founders go &quot;monk mode&quot; and &quot;no dating until Series B&quot; has become a mantra \u2014 and Johnson took a moment to compel the audience to put themselves out there more. &quot;What founders don&#039;t realize is when you don&#039;t take care of your health, you are shitty code,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Our conversation grew more animated from there. I haven&#039;t confirmed this, but I&#039;m fairly certain this marked the first time in conference history where defense tech, AI-accelerated income inequality, cervical tenting, and clitoral erections were discussed on the same panel. Watch our entire chat here, and please don&#039;t tell Bryan that after our talk, I had a glass of pinot with a very strong pour.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Johnson speaking onstage at Business Insider&#039;s The Long Play event in San Francisco. Tammy Horton\/Nikki Ritcher This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here. Longevity secrets with Bryan Johnson Thirty seconds into my conversation with Bryan Johnson on Tuesday night, the longevity influencer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}