Building Technology With Infinite Scale

Episode 52: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) chats with Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett), founder of Vettery, Archer, and Figure. Figure is a cutting edge AI robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid robot to provide labor for undesirable and unsafe jobs. From the successes of his former businesses, Brett continues his entrepreneurial venture towards fixing the human labor shortage. There are many assumptions about AI robotics and Brett disspells some of them, namely, general purpose robots may be closer than we think.  Links: Learn more about Figure Timestamps:  (00:44): Intro (08:01): Vettery, first startup (09:37): Origins of Archer (14:52): The process of selling a business (25:25): The founding of Figure (30:52): Making humanoid robotics possible (39:00): A culture built around the mission #TheCrazyOnes #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to The Crazy Ones here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch The Crazy Ones here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCrazyOnesPod  Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Our Hosts! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) Learn more about Shopify here: shopify.com/crazyones  Learn more about Validated here: http://bit.ly/ValidatedPodcast  Learn more about Think! here: https://strongerthanyouthink.info/thecrazyones  Learn more about Mercury here: https://mercury.com/