Summary
Brett Adcock is an American technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Figure AI, a humanoid robotics company building general-purpose robots for commercial and industrial work. He is a serial founder whose earlier companies span recruiting technology and electric aviation, and Forbes and The New York Times have estimated his net worth at roughly $19 billion as of early 2026 (Brett Adcock — Wikipedia).
Career
Adcock was born on April 6, 1986, and raised on a corn and soybean farm outside Moweaqua, Illinois. He studied at the University of Florida, initially in industrial engineering, and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in business administration (Brett Adcock — Wikipedia).
In 2012, Adcock co-founded Vettery, an AI-based talent marketplace that matched companies with job candidates, out of NYU’s Varick Street Incubator. The Adecco Group, the world’s largest recruiting company, acquired Vettery in 2018 for a reported $100–110 million (Bio | Brett Adcock Official; Brett Adcock — Wikipedia).
Later in 2018, Adcock co-founded electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft company Archer Aviation, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange in February 2021 at a reported $2.7 billion valuation. He has said he architected, engineered, and flight-tested five generations of Archer’s aircraft and helped sign a $1.5 billion agreement with United Airlines (Bio | Brett Adcock Official).
In 2022, Adcock founded Figure AI to build general-purpose humanoid robots aimed at manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail labor. He has continued founding new ventures alongside Figure, including AI security company Cover in 2023 and Hark, a personal-AI hardware and software lab, in 2025 (Brett Adcock — Wikipedia; Observer).
Other Ventures
Beyond Figure, Adcock describes Cover as an AI-driven weapon-detection system for schools, developed in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and Hark as a self-funded lab building multimodal personal AI systems paired with custom hardware (Bio | Brett Adcock Official; Observer).
Source Notes
This profile draws on Adcock’s own official biography, Wikipedia, Forbes, and independent reporting from New Atlas and Observer. Net worth and valuation figures change frequently and should be re-verified against current sources.