Mumbai Techie Offers To Improve AQI At Zerodha Office After Bryan Johnson Leaves Nikhil Kamath’s Podcast – News18

Last Updated:February 06, 2025, 12:49 IST

US millionaire Bryan Johnson left Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s podcast midway due to bad air quality.

After Bryan Johnson, an American millionaire who claims to have reversed his age by 5.1 years, walked out of Nikhil Kamath’s podcast “WTF is longevity?” midway due to “bad air quality”, a startup founder has offered to improve air quality at Zerodha’s office.

Abhinav Gupta, who is developing an air purifier company, proposed a free installation with a guarantee that the Air Quality Index (AQI) would be reduced to single-digit levels.

“Hi Nitin, I have been trying to get in touch with your team to fix the air at Zerodha’s office. We did an IAQ test and found excess CO2 and PM2.5; I am offering a free installation and a guarantee that AQI will be a single digit. All I have been getting is ‘We’ll get back to you’,” said Gupta in a social media post.

Gupta quoted Zerodha co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath’s X (formerly Twitter) post where he shared that Bryan Johnson debunked the myth that poor air quality is limited to Delhi and only occurs seasonally during the winter months.

Bryan Johnson, who was in India for six days to promote his book on age-reversal – ‘Don’t Die’, appeared on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast. During the recording, which took place at a sea-facing apartment in Bandra, Mumbai, Johnson expressed deep concern about India’s air quality. A few minutes into the podcast, he wore a face mask to protect himself from pollutants before eventually walking out midway.

Upon returning to the US, Johnson addressed the issue of India’s air quality, stating that “Indians are justifiably outraged”.

(This is a developing copy)