I grew up in Texas, the son of a Colombian immigrant. My dad was a hard working OBGYN and, early in his career, a pioneer in in vitro fertilization. Medicine and health were table talk in our house.

I didn’t go pre-med. I studied mechanical engineering and physics instead, and the projects and research I took on there taught me how to build things and how to think like a scientist.

The obsession with longevity never left, though. Blackout curtains. Long fasts. Meditation. Qigong. Endurance sports. Breath work. Cryonics. An endless series of longevity obsessions.

In 2025, I married the love of my life, and shortly after we welcomed our son. Around his first birthday, a minor upper respiratory infection sent him to the ER. As a new father, it was unlike anything I’d felt before.

Two things hit me at once. First, that health is the only thing that really matters. I’d trade everything I have for my son to be well. Second, anger. Why are so many people still suffering from sickness and disease? There is a version of this timeline where medicine is decades further along, and we need to get there fast.

Which brings me to now. My working thesis is that after AGI and humanoid robots, the primary “job” left for humans will be to get and stay healthy. We are close to longevity escape velocity, and getting and staying healthy has become a rational imperative.

Increasing healthspan is my life’s mission. Mine, my family’s, and anyone else who will let me help. The plan is to build the world’s best longevity AI, Maxx, and then a longevity resort unlike anything on Earth called [TBD].

Thank you for reading and I hope you take longevity seriously. Your life depends on it. To the future, without fear.

— Michael A. Olaya