Insightful / Thought-Leadership

Brett Adcock sold a company for $100M, took another public at $2.7B, and built Figure AI into the 10th most valuable startup in the world ($39B).
Yet even at that level, he didn’t choose to build alone.
That’s the real takeaway for founders:
Success doesn’t remove uncertainty—it amplifies it.
Bigger outcomes bring heavier decisions, fewer people to confide in, and higher stakes with no clear playbook.
If someone operating at the edge of scale, capital, and innovation still relies on a peer group of founders for perspective, challenge, and clarity—
then having one isn’t a weakness.
It’s a strategy.
Founders don’t fail from lack of talent.
They fail from isolation, blind spots, and carrying too much alone for too long.
If Brett needs peers to think clearly at the top,
maybe you do too. Yet even at that level, Brett didn’t choose isolation. He chose community.