Figure is a fintech company offering home equity loans and developing blockchain-based financial products.figure.com ↗
1 take · first discussed Mar 1, 2025
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The hosts' collective view on Figure is represented solely by Chamath, who takes a neutral stance with medium conviction. He highlights two noteworthy developments: Figure's accelerated home beta testing timeline (moved up by two years to mid-to-late 2025) and a robot collaboration demo showcasing semantic communication between robots, which he regards as a meaningful technical breakthrough. At the same time, Chamath tempers his enthusiasm by flagging actuator dexterity as a remaining near-term limitation. With only one host's perspective available, no points of agreement or disagreement among the group can be drawn.
Chamath highlights Figure's accelerated timeline for home beta testing and a compelling robot collaboration demo, viewing semantic communication between robots as a meaningful breakthrough, though noting actuator dexterity remains a near-term limitation.
Friend of the pod, Brett Adcock, who's the CEO and founder of Figure. He just announced today that he's moved his timelines up by 2 years. He's going to be beta testing robots in the home by the middle to end of this year.”14:24