Adcock was raised on his family's farm just outside of
Moweaqua, Illinois. At the age of sixteen, Adcock began working on web companies, which included an e-commerce site focused on outdoor electronics and a content site called Street of Walls. He subsequently graduated as the
valedictorian of Central A&M High School.[18]
Initially majoring in engineering, Adcock then studied at the
University of Florida's Warrington College of Business and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 2008.[18][3]
Career
In 2013, Adcock founded
Vettery (which later became known as Hired), a talent marketplace that matched job seekers with employers who needed technical expertise.[13] In 2018, the
Adecco Group bought Vettery for $100 million. The same year, Adcock started eVTOL company
Archer Aviation. In 2022 he founded Figure, an
AI startup based in
Sunnyvale that is working on a general-purpose humanoid robot.[6][19] Adcock assembled Figure's team from people working at
Boston Dynamics,
Tesla,
Google DeepMind and
Apple.[18][20] Adcock opines that the creation of humanoid robots will mitigate
labor shortages.[20]
^Blain, Loz (April 10, 2023).
"OpenAI and Figure join the race to humanoid robot workers". www.newatlas.com. Just this year, entrepreneur Brett Adcock, founder of the Vettery "online talent marketplace," and more recently Archer Aviation, one of the leading contenders in the emerging electric VTOL aircraft movement, announced his latest venture is focused on humanoid robots.