EPISODE · Jun 30, 2025 · 1H 3M
Taking Time to Think: How Talent Protocol Was Born
from Vault · host Subvisual
In this episode of Vault, Roberto Machado sits down with Pedro Oliveira and Filipe Macedo, co-founders of Talent Protocol, to explore their journey from chance encounters to building a blockchain-based professional reputation system. The conversation traces their entrepreneurial evolution through career pivots and the sabbatical that never was. Pedro and Filipe share how they started with a dream rather than a problem—envisioning a world where you could "invest in talent"—and how this approach shaped their unique building philosophy. The founders discuss their "redux culture" of building fast and killing projects quickly, their three-stage company evolution from initial launch through crypto winter to current focus on verifiable professional credentials, and their ambitious vision of Builder Scores influencing the future of work. Chapters (00:00:00) - Intro(00:03:34) - The Sabbatical That Never Was(00:14:14) - Stage One: Dreams Over Problems(00:20:52) - Stage Two: Experimenting(00:28:58) - Stage Three: The Professional Reputation Revolution(00:48:34) - The Future of Talent
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In this episode of Vault, Roberto Machado sits down with Pedro Oliveira and Filipe Macedo, co-founders of Talent Protocol, to explore their journey from chance encounters to building a blockchain-based professional reputation system. The conversation traces their entrepreneurial evolution through career pivots and the sabbatical that never was. Pedro and Filipe share how they started with a dream rather than a problem—envisioning a world where you could "invest in talent"—and how this approach shaped their unique building philosophy. The founders discuss their "redux culture" of building fast and killing projects quickly, their three-stage company evolution from initial launch through crypto winter to current focus on verifiable professional credentials, and their ambitious vision of Builder Scores influencing the future of work.
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