NEW: Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure
Full Interview
At a $39 billion valuation, Figure has raised nearly $2 billion in just 4 years to build general-purpose humanoid robots designed to perform real work at scale.
We go deep on the progress, what’s working today, the biggest challenges ahead, & the biggest misconceptions about robotics.
Plus:
• ~50% of global GDP = human labor
• Why this is a $30–40T labor opportunity
• Scaling to thousands → millions of robots
• “This is an intelligence problem”
• Why they walked away from OpenAI
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(00:00) Brett Adcock, Founder & CEO at Figure
(01:13) Hot take on Humanoids (teleoperated?)
(04:09) Race to a Million Robots
(06:24) Building Figure From Scratch
(08:15) Leaving Archer Aviation
(09:25) Post-IPO Move
(12:54) Cover, Hark & NASA's IP
(16:06) How Figure Outgrew OpenAI
(19:18) Founder Performance Playbook
(24:24) Learning from Bezos & Jobs
(29:19) Biggest Risks to the Business
(31:26) Building the World's First Physical AGI