Sam Parr: Brett Adcock sold Vettery for $100M and took Archer public at $2B
Sam Parr · Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month · Mar 28, 2023 · at 17:48
Sam Parr discusses notable founders who have joined his founder network Hampton, highlighting serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock.
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“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 you with cool interviews. They eventually bought hired. He sold it for a hundred million dollars. He took a bunch of his earnings from that and he started Archer, which he took public at the time for like two billion. Market cap now is like six or seven hundred million, but it was a flying car company.”
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