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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Episode 52: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) chats with Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett), founder of Vettery, Archer, and Figure. Figure is a cutting edge AI robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid robot to provide labor for undesirable and unsafe jobs. From the successes of his former businesses, Brett continues his entrepreneurial venture towards fixing the human labor shortage. There are many assumptions about AI robotics and Brett disspells some of them, namely, general purpose robots may be closer than we think. Links: Learn more about Figure Timestamps: (00:44): Intro (08:01): Vettery, first startup (09:37): Origins of Archer (14:52): The process of selling a business (25:25): The founding of Figure (30:52): Making humanoid robotics possible (39:00): A culture built around the mission #TheCrazyOnes #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to The Crazy Ones here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch The Crazy Ones here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCrazyOnesPod Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Our Hosts! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) Learn more about Shopify here: shopify.com/crazyones Learn more about Validated here: http://bit.ly/ValidatedPodcast Learn more about Think! here: https://strongerthanyouthink.info/thecrazyones Learn more about Mercury here: https://mercury.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I basically determined now that there's a chance here to probably build the world's biggest business and even beyond that like make the probably the biggest impact I could at anything I spend my time on.
0:10.0	So half of all GDP is labor human labor so you think like the transportation markets big like the market for like human labor is it's the biggest economy in the world it's massive.
0:22.0	We happen to have built this universal way to interact with the world that like that works with the human body.
0:28.0	It's like the it's the equivalent of like the keyboard and the mouse for the internet which is like the universal general interface to the web or to the physical world.
0:37.0	That same equivalent here in the physical world is a human body.
0:42.0	What's up everyone I'm Alex Lieberman.
0:44.0	You know this is Jesse Pooji and this is the crazy ones.
0:59.0	Don't you just love the sweet sound of success?
1:02.0	That's the sound of another sale on Shopify a tiny business dream becoming a reality.
1:09.0	Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionizing millions of businesses worldwide.
1:14.0	Whether you're selling vintage concert posters or handmade faverj eggs Shopify makes selling online and in person as simple as saying chitching.
1:24.0	Packed with industry leading tools Shopify gives you complete control over your business and your brand without having to learn any new skills in design or code.
1:34.0	And get this Shopify covers tons of sales channels.
1:38.0	You can even sell across TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
1:41.0	New to selling Shopify offers 24 seven health and an extensive business course library so you'll feel supported every step of the way.
1:50.0	Now it's your turn to get serious about selling and try Shopify today.
1:54.0	Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com slash crazy ones all lowercase.
2:01.0	That's shopify.com slash crazy ones shopify.com slash crazy ones.
2:17.0	On today's episode of the crazy ones I chat with Brett Adcock.
2:21.0	He's the founder of veterary archer and figure.
2:24.0	He sold veterary a job search platform for $100 million in 2018.
2:29.0	Then archer which is an electric aircraft startup.
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