Issue No. 37Week ending Sunday, September 13, 2026434 episodes · 1825 articles
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Brett Adcock

Brett Adcock appears in 1 full episode we cover on My First Million. Below is what each conversation covered, with a key takeaway per article. Every quote in the articles is verbatim and timestamped to the source video.

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4 wild AI predictions from a $39B tech founder

In this episode, entrepreneur Brett Adcock discusses his ventures Figure (humanoid robots) and HARK (digital AI symbiosis), highlighting their progress and challenges. He shares his predictions for AI's impact, the escalating talent war in the industry, and his personal philosophy on tackling "hard things" in business while making significant personal sacrifices to achieve success.

  • Brett Adcock reveals Meta's $36M AI talent grabs and his counter-strategy: finding "obsessed" engineers over "mercenaries" using a unique technical assessment. Read →
  • Brett Adcock champions the philosophy that tackling inherently hard problems (like humanoid robots at Figure) is paradoxically "easier" in the long run than pursuing simpler ventures. Read →
  • Brett Adcock believes AI will be "a hundred times bigger than the internet," predicting a future where every human has a digital AI pairing, much like an omnipresent "Jarvis from Iron Man." Read →
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