Brett Adcock

And it was great.

It was a good time for me.

I really, at the point, it was a point in my life where I really wanted to do something much bigger.

And so I took about, it basically took about a year

And so it took about a year of a time I got the term sheet to sell to when we actually sold and closed.

It's a long process you have to go through, like tons of docs, and then you announce the deal, then you actually close the deal, and then it went into escrow, then it finally hit my account.

It's kind of like one of those processes.

And I want to go work on something really important, hard, and a couple industries that I've been interested in, robotics and aviation and some areas of security for like basically since college.

I basically spent a lot of time trying to figure out if I was either going to work on... At the time, school shootings, like, basically 10x'd.

And I was like, man, there's got to be something to do here, and we can, you know... And then secondly, I really wanted to work on, like, flying cars.

Like, having to watch a lot of sci-fi as a kid is like, man, like, I really want to go... There was a near-term problem of, like, we got to go help...

with security in schools, K through 12, mostly in the US.

And then, how do we... I want to work on flying cars.

And I ended up making a decision to work on flying cars at the time.

So in 2018, shortly after the sale of Vetteri, I started Archer Aviation.

And basically, like, the story here is,

you can build like an electric aircraft that can take off like a helicopter.

If you take off like a helicopter, you don't need to place the airports outside of cities.

You can place them inside of cities.

Think about like a helicopter can take off from a building or a helipad.