# 31 He wants to save your pet with cryo - The Kai Micah Mills interview

About this episode

Kai Micah Mills discusses the potential of cryopreservation for pets and its implications for life extension.

When you give a child a pet, you also expose them to death—since most pets pass away long before their owners. But what if we could cryopreserve Buddy or Tiger, and bring them back from suspended animation once we have a cure for what ended their lives? Kai Micah Mills is a pioneering figure in radical life extension and biostasis. As the founder of Cryopets, he is leading efforts to make cryopreservation accessible for pets, with aspirations to extend these technologies to humans. He left high school early to pursue entrepreneurship, becoming a tech entrepreneur in his teens. A Thiel Fellow and co-founder of CryoDAO and HydraDAO, Kai is deeply involved in decentralized science initiatives aimed at advancing longevity research. 00:00 Introduction 04:44 Timeship in Texas 05:36 Vitalism 11:54 Bryan Johnson, Mormonism and Vitalism 18:25 Dropping out of highschool to play video games 24:25 Becoming a Thiel Fellow 40:37 Why Cryonics? 49:53 We want Immortality 53:19 Cosmism 01:01:36 AI 01:05:47 Building Cryopets 01:27:42 Cryonics science 01:37:24 Cryo rat 01:46:01 CryoDAO HydraDAO and replacement 01:59:30 Talent shortage in cryogenics 02:05:08 Book recommendations 🗞️ SUBSCRIBE to the…

People in this episode

Host: Peter Ottsjö

Guest: Kai Micah Mills

Topics covered

• cryopreservation
• radical life extension
• biostasis
• decentralized science
• longevity research
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• cryonics
• pets
• longevity
• biostasis
• technology
• entrepreneurship
• decentralized science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cryopets, CryoDAO, HydraDAO

Books & works: The Case Against Death

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