This Crypto Token Helps You Find Jobs @Adam & Gabe (Braintrust) | The Quest Pod with Justin Kan @FractalRadio

Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 32 minutes ago

Welcome to The Quest Pod Season 1: Episode 32 with Adam Jackson and Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: the founders of the BTRST talk about their plan to assassinate marketplace middlemen.

Adam and Gabe are the co-founders of Braintrust, a decentralized talent network connecting freelancers with organizations. The platform is 100% user-controlled, with the BTRST token being used as the incentive to vet talent and refer clients (BTRST is listed for public purchase on Coinbase).

I knew both Adam and Gabe from their past life investing and building web2 marketplaces. This episode is a crash course for me understanding how a web3 startup works: we talk about the cold start problem when building a marketplace, token governance, letting a DAO vote on protocols and tips for aspiring founders building on blockchains. Adam and Gabe also inspired me to start my own crypto project, which I can’t wait to share with you soon.

00:00 Intro
00:52 Life before Braintrust
07:27 Cutting out the middleman
17:34 The cold start problem
21:40 Should you hodl $BTRST?
34:11 Writing the new protocol for work
39:33 Token governance explained
43:39 Making a collective roadmap
47:40 What does the future look like?
53:33 How to start building in web3?

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