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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…”
Brett Adcock Nov 20, 2023 ▶ 16:27 Avoiding an OpenAI Fiasco by Successfully Building Your Board
Insight
Electric aircraft range depends on three core physics levers
“You can boil almost everything down to three big levers that the business had or the product had on the aircraft side. You basically had we basically, I basically built an, like, you know, electric range equation that amounted to how much powertrain efficiency…”
Brett Adcock May 23, 2023 ▶ 23:54 Building Technology With Infinite Scale
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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.”
Brett Adcock Nov 20, 2023 ▶ 20:19 Avoiding an OpenAI Fiasco by Successfully Building Your Board
Assertion Supported
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…”
Alex Lieberman Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 18:04 How To Find Great Business Ideas Using Effectuation
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Everyone at Figure is an engineer except two longtime operators
“We basically have, like, two people, and then on the whole, everybody here is engineers except for two people. Those two people have been with me at Bettery. They're my first, like, my first hire at Bettery, and then the first hire is at Archer, and first, ver…”
Brett Adcock May 23, 2023 ▶ 43:41 Building Technology With Infinite Scale
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