Brett Adcock
30 statements across 8 episodes · 10 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 8, 2022 by Sam Parr · said 50 times in 14 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sam Parr (41), Shaan Puri (8), Anthony Pompliano (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 20 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
2023 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2022 18 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
Everything said about Brett Adcock, oldest first
Sep 8, 2022
Vettery raised $10M, sold for over $100M, and acquired Hired.com
“Vetteri ended up buying Hired.com when Hired.com went bankrupt. And so Vetteri was basically a job website to help people recruit engineers, raised ten million dollars, eventually was acquired for a hundred and twenty-ish, about a hundred, 150, I think.”
Sep 8, 2022
Oct 1, 2022 neutral
Dec 29, 2022 positive
Sam Parr: Brett Adcock put ~$200M of personal capital into humanoid robotics
“He made a lot of money when he sold his company called Vetteri for a hundred million dollars. Then he created, Vetteri is like a recruiting company. It's not sexy. But then he created a flying drone company that he took public called Archer. It was worth two o…”
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Sam Parr: Brett Adcock sold Vettery for $100M and took Archer public at $2B
“So this guy named Brett Adcock, he started this thing called Vetteri, which was a marketplace for talent, but it was very much like hired. So if you're an engineer, you go through all these tests, they kind of like algorithmically and kind of manually match yo…”
Sep 26, 2023 negative
Sep 26, 2023 bearish
Sep 26, 2023 bullish
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023 neutral
Adcock made tens of millions after tax from Vettery exit
“And you know, I made like, I went from like having nothing to like having tens of millions of dollars after tax. So it was. You know, it was a lot of money. I just didn't need, I didn't need almost any of it. So I wanted to work on this new, new thing”
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023 neutral
Adcock: Warehouses face 15% daily absenteeism and up to 150% annual turnover
“So we walk into these warehouses, manufacturing, retail, whatever, and we walk in and they're telling us that 15% of employees don't show up every day to work. They're saying they have two to three percent weekly attrition, 50 to 150% annual turnover.”
Sep 26, 2023
Adcock was $100,000 in personal debt before selling Vettery
“In 2015 things got so bad that I had to borrow, I think it was 50,000 dollars to pay for rent and survive. I had like credit card debt. I was, yeah, I was probably in the red, like negative a 100,000 dollars prior to the acquisition of Vetteri.”
Sep 26, 2023 bullish
Sep 26, 2023 negative
Sep 26, 2023 bullish
Mar 8, 2024
Jun 17, 2024 positive
Jun 17, 2024
Adcock spent hundreds of thousands on archer.com before IPO
“I bought archer.com a month before going public. So not really. So it was like flyarcher.com for a while. That was like, you know, nine dollars. And then I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying archer.com, you know, a year later, two years later.”
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Adcock: Multidisciplinary engineering teams must ban acronyms and internal jargon
“We try not to use acronyms and a software-purpose person that writes firmware, an electromagnetics person that builds, like, a rotor stator for electric motor, like, Those folks don't understand those other disciplines. Generally. So they need to communicate w…”
Jun 17, 2024
Jun 17, 2024
Adcock: Longer hardware design phases produce worse products than rapid iteration
“People think that the longer you spend designing something, the safer it'll be and the better it'll be. It's for sure wrong. Cause in that two year period of time where that one robot got out, I'm gonna have my third gen robot out. And I'll have run it like an…”
Jun 17, 2024 positive
Adcock: Cover licensed NASA tech to image weapons in 30 days
“Yeah, so we haven't announced this yet, but like it is, we have about 12 people on the project, and we own all the intellectual property from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Licensed all of it. And we will have our first system brought up to start imaging weapons i…”
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Jun 17, 2024
Jun 17, 2024 positive
Adcock: Building ambitious companies is easier than building small businesses
“It's a hundred percent easier. You can hire better people because they're more ambitious and they're interested in working on harder things. They're generally larger, it could be larger outcomes. You're talking about like, you know, building like new industrie…”
Jun 19, 2024 positive