Vault || Ep. 3
Taking Time to Think: How Talent Protocol Was Born
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.
