Brett Adcock
15 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 23, 2023 by Brett Adcock · said 10 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- How To Find Great Business Ideas Using Effectuation
- Is it Time To Pivot ‘The Plunge’?
- The Story of Sam Zemurray is Bananas
- Week In Review: Thoughts on OpenAI, Morning Rituals, and Momentum
- “How Soon Should You Have Investor Convos?” - Mailbag #1
- The Shameless Entrepreneur, Shoptalk 2023, When To Delegate
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
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May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023 positive
May 23, 2023 bearish
Special-purpose robots will never reach high volumes or scale AI
“And then the problem there is you're building one product for one application. That application will never be done. A product will never be manufactured in high volumes, which is hard for cost. And you're never really going to build an AI data engine on one pr…”
May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023 bullish
May 23, 2023 neutral
May 23, 2023 positive
Humanoid robots will not displace labor near-term due to massive shortages
“I think in like the near and medium case, we're really not going to be displacing that much labor. I think what we're seeing every day we're walking into a warehouse or manufacturing a retail scenario, they have a tremendous amount of unemployment. The turnove…”
Nov 6, 2023 positive
Lieberman: Brett Adcock Invested First Exit Proceeds Into Archer and $100M Into Figure
“Like I think of like Brett, Brett Adcock, who took all of the money from his first exit put it into his second company, which was an electric vertical takeoff and landing business called Archer. Then he took a hundred million dollars from that business and put…”
Nov 20, 2023 positive
Adcock: Figure and Archer Used 10-to-1 Supermajority Founder Voting Stock
“What I've done at Figures here is I have a special class of stock, and I had this work at Archer that is super majority. So my stock is has a 10 for one vote versus the common and preferred. And that's sitting in the special share class of common stock.”
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Adcock: Retooling Archer's Board for NYSE Independence Rules Was a Mistake
“I took my company public on the New York Stock Exchange. You have to have the majority of all your board seats be independent. So I had to basically retool my whole entire board at Archer when I went public. And it was a, you know, I made like a, basically loo…”
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Adcock: Hidden Contract Clauses Can Strip Fired Founders of Voting Rights
“Basically like, you know, like layman's terms, if you get fired, you lose, you can basically lose your common votes for governance purposes. These are kind of hidden in your transaction agreements. So the investor rights agreements, right at first refusal, co-…”
Nov 20, 2023 bullish
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Nov 20, 2023 neutral
Adcock: Figure's Initial Board Gave Him Control of Three Seats
“When I set up the business, like here at figure, like I set up basically three seats. For myself. So two for common shareholders, which I'm a majority of the common. So the common get to vote on two seats. I'm the majority of that being the, you know, the foun…”