Brett Adcock at a glance
Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
Role | Founder and CEO of Figure AI since 2022; also founder and CEO of Hark and founder of Cover |
Born | April 6, 1986, on a family farm in Moweaqua, Illinois (University of Florida) |
Education | University of Florida, bachelor’s in business administration, 2008 |
Before Figure | Co-founded Vettery (sold to Adecco, 2018) and Archer Aviation (public in 2021) |
Net worth | $23.4 billion, Forbes, November 9, 2026 (Forbes) |
Lives in | Palo Alto, California |
None published; his website has a contact form | |
X |
Figure AI CEO email address: how to reach Brett Adcock
Adcock hasn’t published an email address. His website has a contact form, with a warning: “I get a lot of messages and can’t reply to all of them” (brettadcock.com). Job applicants should apply on his companies’ careers pages instead, he adds. He posts most on X, where he has almost 900,000 followers. Figure AI staff use {first}.{last}@figure.ai, such as maya.chen@figure.ai for a fictional Maya Chen. Figure’s domain is figure.ai; figure.com belongs to a different company, the lender Figure Technology Solutions.
Channel | Address | Note |
|---|---|---|
Contact form | He says he can’t answer every message | |
X | His most active channel | |
Linked from his website |
Figure AI email address pattern
Figure AI staff use {first}.{last}@figure.ai, such as maya.chen@figure.ai for a fictional Maya Chen. Figure’s domain is figure.ai; figure.com belongs to a different company, the lender Figure Technology Solutions.
Format | Example (fictional name: Maya Chen) | Who uses it | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
{first}.{last}@figure.ai | maya.chen@figure.ai | Every staff address Figure’s people have published | Current, standard |
{f}.{last}@figure.ai | m.chen@figure.ai | Possibly some staff; not seen in a published address | Unconfirmed |
{first}@figure.ai | maya@figure.ai | Possibly a few early staff; not seen in a published address | Unconfirmed |
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Career timeline
Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
May 21, 2026 | Hark, his AI lab, raises $700 million at a $6 billion valuation (TechCrunch) |
Late 2025 | Starts Hark with $100 million of his own money |
Sep 16, 2025 | Figure’s Series C values it at $39 billion (Figure) |
Feb 4, 2025 | Ends Figure’s collaboration with OpenAI |
2024 | Becomes a billionaire on Forbes’ list |
2023 | Founds Cover, which licenses NASA technology to detect concealed weapons (TechCrunch) |
2022 | Founds Figure, funding it with $100 million of his own money (TechCrunch) |
Apr to May 2022 | Steps down as Archer co-CEO, then leaves its board (DroneDJ) |
Sep 17, 2021 | Archer Aviation lists on the NYSE through a SPAC |
2018 | Sells Vettery to Adecco for $110 million and co-founds Archer Aviation |
2012 | Co-founds Vettery, a hiring marketplace, at 26 |
2008 | Graduates from the University of Florida |
How Brett Adcock built Figure AI
Adcock grew up on a third-generation corn and soybean farm in central Illinois and built his first software company at 15. He started at the University of Florida in industrial engineering, switched to business, and in 2012 co-founded Vettery, which matched companies with job seekers; Adecco bought it in 2018 for $110 million (brettadcock.com). That year he co-founded Archer Aviation, an electric air-taxi company, and took it public in 2021; in 2022 he gave up the co-CEO role and left its board.
“I founded Figure to give AI a body,” he writes. He started it in 2022 with $100 million of his own money, hired engineers from Boston Dynamics, Tesla and Google DeepMind, and raised from Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI’s fund. When Figure’s own AI work advanced, he ended the OpenAI partnership in February 2025. He runs Hark and Cover at the same time, and Figure’s and Hark’s lead investor is the same, Parkway Venture Capital.
His claims draw challenges: BMW has described a smaller deployment than Figure has, OpenAI says Figure missed deliverables, and Archer says he overstates his role there (Forbes). Adcock disputes each account.
Brett Adcock’s net worth and age
Forbes estimates Adcock’s net worth at $23.4 billion as of November 9, 2026, ranking him 110th in the world, mostly from the about 50% of Figure it says he owns. Forbes first counted him as a billionaire in 2024. He was born on April 6, 1986, which makes him 40.
In his own words
“I founded Figure to give AI a body.”
— Brett Adcock, brettadcock.com
“Today, I made the decision to leave our Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI.”
— Brett Adcock, February 4, 2025 (X)
“Max AGI is a humanoid robot that can do everything a human can.”
— Brett Adcock, September 10, 2026 (X)
“Solve general robotics, and you win.”
— Brett Adcock, October 28, 2025 (X)
“One day we will manufacture millions of humanoid robots that will be deployed into commercial customers and the home.”
— Brett Adcock, November 19, 2024 (X)
“I think every human will have one, like a phone or car.”
— Brett Adcock, on home robots, October 2026
Figure AI’s leadership
Person | Role |
|---|---|
Brett Adcock | Founder and CEO, director |
Kyle Edelberg | Chief engineer |
Dana Berlin | Executive officer; commercialization and capital |
Lee Randaccio | Executive officer; growth |
Logan Berkowitz | Executive officer; business operations |
Gregg Hill | Board member, co-founder of Parkway Venture Capital |
Figure’s funding, robots and customers are on the Figure AI company profile.
