Brett Adcock

Brett Adcock, born on 6 April 1986, is an American technology entrepreneur and the founder and chief executive of Figure AI. He grew up on his family farm near Moweaqua, Illinois, began building web businesses at sixteen and graduated from the University of Florida in 2008 with a degree in business administration. In 2013 he co-founded Vettery, later called Hired, a talent marketplace that the Adecco Group bought in 2018 for 100 million dollars. In October 2018 he co-founded the electric aircraft company Archer Aviation, funding a research grant at the University of Florida to start it. He founded Figure AI in May 2022 to build general-purpose humanoid robots, the security company Cover in 2023 and the artificial intelligence company Hark in 2025. He was named in the Time 2024 list of influential people in artificial intelligence.