Brett Adcock
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Robots
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Organization
- CEO & founder at Figure AI
- Education
- University of Florida (Bachelor of Business Administration)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- Archer Aviation10,820,000 shares @ --ACHR-US
Biography
Brett Adcock founded robot maker Figure in 2022; investors including Microsoft, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and OpenAI backed the company at a $2.6 billion valuation in February 2024.
Figure is working to bring an AI-powered 'general purpose humanoid' to life and insert the robots into the labor force.
Adcock, a serial entrepreneur, previously cofounded electric aviation firm Archer Aviation, which went public in a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) merger in 2021.
Adcock also cofounded hiring marketplace Vettery in 2012 and sold it to Switzerland-based HR services firm The Adecco Group in 2018 for $110 million.
Adcock owns an estimated 50% of Figure.
About
Adcock predicts that in the future, everyone will have a humanoid robot to perform tasks like doing the laundry, making coffee and cooking dinner.
Adcock grew up on a corn and soybean farm in a small town in Illinois, the child of third-generation farmers.