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Adcock: General Catalyst's Joel Cutler called my Archer pitch disrespectful
“At one point I got introduced to the guy that runs like General Catalyst, Joel. And he called my pitch disrespectful.”
Brett Adcock invested $200M of his personal wealth into a new startup
“He's told me he took basically two hundred million dollars and he's put all of it into his new company. And still to this day, he goes, the only stock that I own is Archer and my house.”
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…”
Marc Lore seeded Archer Aviation with $5M before its $4B SPAC
“That's what we did. I put five in, we helped raise, you know, helped hire the engineering talent, helped them raise fifty million. And that was two years ago. And then they just raised a billion through the SPAC. And so now it's a 4000000003.7 billion market c…”
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.”
Adcock: No electric aircraft had ever been certified in history before Archer
“Nobody in history has had ever certified an electric aircraft before.”
Adcock: I put $1M into Archer Aviation's SPAC PIPE at $3B valuation
“I even put a million dollars in the SPAC pipe as we went public at 10 bucks. And so personally, I was like, I'll put another million dollars in here at three billion dollar valuation.”
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…”
Archer Aviation went public at a $3B-$4B valuation via SPAC
“Archer eventually does a SPAC. I believe they did a SPAC, but they went public. So they sold like a billion dollars worth of these flying vehicles to United airlines or something like that takes it public for three or four billion dollars.”