Brett Adcock

It was the main road down of University of Florida.

And I spent the next year, year and a half basically modeling and building electric eVTOL aircraft.

Yeah.

And it was a great time in my life.

And the problem is there was no intersection of folks that knew electric, knew rotorcraft, or knew airplanes.

There was no Venn diagram of overlap.

So there was nobody in the world that understood how did this all stuff that works.

So I had to go from scratch, like learn it from first principles.

And then ended up moving the company out to California, basically a few years into the business.

And then, you know, things took off from there.

We like built bigger aircraft.

I took the company public within three years of starting it.

We're like a $6 billion publicly traded company today.

And yeah, designed basically like four or five generations of aircraft at Archer.

And...

It was hard.

It really set me up well for doing figure and cover and the rest of the stuff we can talk about later.

But it was hard.

Even going public was probably one of the hardest experiences of my life.

Really?