From a second mortgage to $19B net worth | Brett Adcock

Brett Adcock: We think we believe now the most important constraint to really solve is like building a really intelligent robot system to the world. Like there's a bunch of robots you can go buy now. You can buy some from China and you get them and they're complete crap. They can't do anything. They like you can joy sticking around. That's all you can do... Robots are like that now. Like where you can we can go manufacture a ton of them, but like if they're not really smart, like it's not really going to be that helpful. We're trying to crack like the true human level intelligence of figure.

Brett Adcock: I think hats off. like really good execution, their recruiting efforts and how they're structuring this stuff and uh it's like I think it's I think it's like paying off for them... No other nobody wants to go to Meta. They just they're going there because they're getting paid a guaranteed RSU package by sitting around. And what's happening is like you don't need like a thousand people or 500 or 300 to design AI models. You need like a really good team of 20 or 30 or 40 people. And that you can get there without doing this. And those people probably would care more deeply about the mission and where you're at and be more committed than just if you purely throw money at the problem.

Brett Adcock: The inner monologue is like this really sucks. Super painful. I think at that point you just got to go like day for day. You just got to make it like day. You got to make when things get really bad like that, you got to build a punch list and you just got to get through it. Like there's only way out is through. So you need to build a punch list and you need to get to day-to-day... just all you got to do is like pick something like it doesn't matter if it's 100 feet or half a mile in the distance even though you have 49 miles left to go in the race just pick something half a mile away and tell yourself once you get there then you'll consider quitting.

Brett Adcock: When you work on harder things, you have like less generally like overall probably there's like first order like less competition. You have probably like a hard thing probably means like it could be a potential like really big TAM, really big exit if it works... I think there's like a nonlinear curve to scaling like here the difficulty here meaning like I think a lot of the hard things are not like 10 or 100 times harder I think the hard things sometimes are like two or three or four times harder maybe five times harder but they're not 100 times harder so you might have a hundred times better payoff but it might be like three or four times harder.