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Brett Adcock

CEO & Founder, Figure Ai

Search every verified Brett Adcock interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Brett Adcock, founder and CEO of Figure AI, appeared on a podcast in August 2026 where he discussed his companies and the state of AI development. He described his hiring challenges at Figure, noting that the company had conducted ten case studies per week for six months without hiring a single mechanical engineer due to extremely demanding technical requirements. He also mentioned that top AI engineers receive competing offers worth tens of millions of dollars annually, largely driven by companies like Meta. Adcock expressed that AI progress is occurring faster than he anticipated, stating that the current AI work will be "a hundred times bigger than the internet." Adcock also discussed his personal approach to success, saying he created a spreadsheet at age 24 tracking roughly 50 highly successful people, examining when they were born, started apprenticeships, and launched their first ventures. He said he used this method to understand what was possible and to draw inspiration. During the interview, he was noted as having founded Vettery, taken Archer public, and currently leading Figure AI, along with ventures called Cover, aimed at stopping school shootings, and HARK, which he said had raised billions in funding.

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“We feel that the latter, like leasing the robot, is one of the like better business models for Figure and for the world longer term. We think it's a way to reduce the upfront burden to how much it costs. We It's an ability for us to push more hardware and software into the systems. Meaning we can constantly refurbishing your hardware. We can be pushing new software into it basically weekly or daily and making the rob”

“We feel that the latter, like leasing the robot, is one of the like better business models for Figure and for the world longer term. We think it's a way to reduce the upfront burden to how much it costs. We It's an ability for us to push more hardware and software into the systems. Meaning we can constantly refurbishing your hardware. We can be pushing new software into it basically weekly or daily and making the rob”

“I think I need to know the exact numbers but I I my forecast is maybe by next quarter I don't think we'll have anything coming out of China on the supply chain side. Wow. Really? We've moved most of our supply chain like in ter like outside of China the last like year uh for tariffs, geopolitical risks, everything else. So we don't we have very little uh manufacturing uh on individual individual parts coming out of C”

“This will build like the biggest business in the world like half of like a little under half of GDP is human labor in the commercial market. Like they pay wages for humans. We do human work. So you're looking at we will have the ability to ship if the robots work well billions of robots in the commercial workforce. Uh you'll produce you know there's like 30 trillion 40 trillion of wages paid to this like every year t”

“The meta problem in robotics is be able to solve a humanoid robot. If you can solve this, it'll build the biggest business in the world by like a large factor. Half the world's GDP, a little under half the world's GDP is human labor. I wanted to go work on building this like this holy grail of robotics. Um at Archer I, you know, I led design for every aircraft we have there. Uh and I feel um I feel like this is now t”

“I'm watching AI in a human body do human work early — and that, combined with AI that can use computers, will lead to the greatest increase in productivity we've ever seen and ultimately reduce goods and service prices to unprecedented levels, like a true age of abundance.”

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