Sam Parr: Brett Adcock put ~$200M of personal capital into humanoid robotics
Sam Parr · The 2022 Milly Awards (#401) · Dec 29, 2022 · at 4:40
Sam Parr discusses entrepreneur Brett Adcock during the Billy of the Year segment on My First Million.
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“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 or three billion at its peak. Now he told me that he's Took roughly two hundred million dollars of his own money, which I think was like the majority of his liquid net worth other than the house that he owns. And he's piled all of it into bootstrapping a new robotic company called where they make humanoids.”
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