Brett Adcock

Brett Adcock is an American technology entrepreneur and billionaire who is the founder and chief executive officer of Figure AI. In 2018, Adcock co-founded Archer Aviation, five years after he co-founded Vettery. In 2023, he established Cover., Forbes estimated his net worth as US$1.4 billion.

Early life and education

Born on April 6, 1986, Adcock was raised on his family's third-generation farm outside Moweaqua, Illinois. At the age of sixteen, Adcock began working on web companies, which included an e-commerce site focused on outdoor electronics and a content site called Street of Walls. He subsequently graduated as the valedictorian of Central A&M High School.
Adcock studied at the University of Florida, initially majoring in industrial engineering, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 2008. During his collegiate education, Adcock was a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Career

In 2013, Adcock co-founded Vettery, a talent marketplace that matched job seekers with employers who needed technical expertise. In 2018, the Adecco Group bought Vettery for $100 million.
In October 2018, Adcock co-founded eVTOL company Archer Aviation.
In May 2022 he founded Figure AI, an artificial intelligence startup based in Sunnyvale that is working on a general-purpose humanoid robot. Adcock assembled Figure's team from people working at Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Google DeepMind and Apple. Adcock opined that the creation of humanoid robots will mitigate labor shortages.
In October 2023, Adcock founded AI security company Cover to prevent school shootings in the United States by death toll|school shootings in the United States]. Cover uses licensed technology from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA.

Personal life

Adcock resides in Palo Alto, California, with his wife and three children. He has a penchant for the Robot series authored by Isaac Asimov, novels that influenced his career.
He was included in the Time 2024 list of influential people in AI.