Figure AI's Brett Adcock marks 20 years of startups: $110M exit, $2.7B IPO, $39B humanoid valuation
adcock_brett · x · 2026-09-03
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock posted "20 years in. See you in 20 more," prompting a recap of his serial entrepreneurship: Vettery sold to Adecco for $110M, Archer Aviation's $2.7B eVTOL IPO, Figure AI at a $39B humanoid robotics valuation, plus Cover (school weapon-detection AI), Hark (personal intelligence), and Index (claimed largest robot dataset in the world).
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