# $39B founder says his company could 100x in 5 years Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/39b-founder-says-his-company-could-100x-in-5-years Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/39b-founder-says-his-company-could-100x-in-5-years.md Podcast: [My First Million](https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184) Published: 2026-08-14T11:11:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS4350312404.mp3 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS4350312404.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/39b-founder-says-his-company-could-100x-in-5-years Duration seconds: 3636 ## Resource Sam's database on how long it takes to become a millionaire: https://clickhubspot.com/elft Episode 851: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Brett Adcock ( https://x.com/adcock_brett ), the founder of Figure.ai. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:29) Hark, a human in a box (8:00) zero constraints (17:32) rapid prototyping (21:38) What are the robots doing? (23:45) what about the hype is real? (27:54) finding the best people (30:14) $20M dollar salaries for engineers (32:03) How Zuck is buying his way into AI (35:44) Auditing Brett's 2026 predictions (42:33) reducing your buckets (44:00) show us your home screen (46:17) hitting rock bottom 3x (57:22) who inspires Brett — Links: • Hark - https://hark.com/  • Cover - https://www.cover.ai/  • Figure - https://www.figure.ai/  — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/  Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot M… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/39b-founder-says-his-company-could-100x-in-5-years/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/39b-founder-says-his-company-could-100x-in-5-years.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.