Brett Adcock

And he's like, I'm like, what are you doing here?

He's like, oh, I want to go do a career in eVTOL aircraft.

And it's called electric vertical takeoff and landing.

So, you know, a helicopter is a VTOL.

And you put a little E in front, so we're electric.

And he asked me what I'm doing here.

I was like, oh, I'm starting a company to do this, and I need to figure out how to go build these things.

And he's like, well, listen, my professor runs a small drone lab.

He's got a full building.

He's got 12 PhDs.

Why don't you come down and meet him and see if you can start building aircraft with him?

So I flew down.

that weekend to go meet his professor that runs all of basically mechanical engineering and aerospace.

And long story short is I ended up taking over his lab.

And me and him and his team started building aircraft in 2018 and 2019 down in University of Florida.

And I temporarily moved down there with my

my daughter at the time and my wife, living in Gainesville, Florida.

And it was great.

I ended up funding a lab right off of Archer Road, a new lab, because we needed more space.

We ended up calling the business Archer Aviation.