Rank #145
Brett Adcock
Net worth $19.1B
Robots · United States
- Born
- Apr 06, 1986
- Age
- 40
- Source
- Robots
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Florida
Net worth over time
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.
- 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.
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