Jasmine Sun

speaker

1,088 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 20 Jun

Jasmine Sun’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Marketplace All-in-One · The 'biohacking' trend that has tech workers experimenting on themselves · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

And then I do think that there is a way in which it's possible that tech culture is becoming a little bit more appearance and charisma conscious as well.

One thing I was interested to know is that one of the women I interviewed who is on gray market, read a true tide, the GLP three, she said that she is starting a company.

She was watching all of these launch videos from other founders.

And she noticed that

other founders weren't overweight anymore.

And now you always have to be on video because that's sort of what's taking over.

You got to be doing long podcasts.

You got to be presenting.

And that made her a little bit more self-conscious and wanting to lose weight in order to compete within this extremely frothy, competitive world of startups.

And so I think everyone I spoke to was really looking for an edge.

And that's the kind of founder attitude that you see.

It's Been a Minute · Peptides & the pursuit of the "perfect" body · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

And rather than dyeing his hair, I suppose, he went for melanotan.

But then he said he also had a friend who accidentally took too much melanotan and people started reading him as being a different race than he was.

Thanks for having us on.

Right.

So I recently wrote a piece for the New York Times on the rise of, quote unquote, Chinese peptides in Silicon Valley.

which is a biohacking trend that's exploded throughout 2025.

I think I first saw it as a meme and people talking about it on Twitter, on Axe.

And then I mentioned it in real life and started meeting real life people in San Francisco who said, oh yeah, I am buying off-label injectables from Chinese manufacturers off the internet, mixing them myself with vials of bacteriostatic water in my home and injecting them into my body.

And I was like,

Showing 981–1000 of 1,088 · page 50 of 55