Hey guys, what's going on? Happy Thursday. Today we got in Tropia and the building. We are just waiting for them to join the AMA. They're just getting off of a call. So just pair with us and we'll get it started.
Hey, what's up? Oh good. Oh good. I was very productive day today. That's all good. Thank you for joining me and really appreciate it and yeah, let's just get it started. So again for everybody that's you know listening or gonna listen to a
after the AMA. My name's JJ. Thanks everybody for joining and today we got in Tropia in the building. We got Max, their CEO and founder. Yeah, Max, which appreciate you coming on. How's the day been?
Very good. We are working on the next version of our product and I'm super excited about what we built them. Everything is good over here. Working super
in the morning here in the west coast. So yeah, no, super excited to have you on and ready to get it started. So for those, for those that don't know, tell us a little bit more about you and kind of like your background. Yeah.
So I started in crypto about 10 years ago. It happened by accident. I was building my first startup and I was trying to
build non-national currency for the startup. I don't know why, but it was the idea and I was trying to find someone who can code me this currency and now I'm agreed to do so but one guy pointed me
to Bitcoin. I read Wikipedia article, then I read white paper and it just felt in love. And basically since 2014 I was, you know, built by Bitcoin movements and I've been translating
articles, writing articles, I wrote my thesis on Bitcoin in 2016 and in 2016 I think I joined Crypto full-time. I was a marketer, I was responsible for many big marketing companies
campaigns back in 2016, 17 years. And then I run one of the most successful marketing agencies in the space called Byzantium. We raised more than 150,000 for our clients and it was pure retail. Again, it was 2017, 18 years,
In 2019 I decided that I don't want to do marketing anymore and I even wanted to leave crypto and we started traditional recruitment agency called Make it a new crane because I'm Ukrainian and we've been based in Ukraine
grain. So yeah, basically that's how I started building recruitment products and then when DeFi Summerhead I realized that we need to first of all I witnessed you know huge demand for the free native
talent and a huge gap between supply and demand and decided to build something to address this specific problem and that's how entropy was born and then we just keep building and now we are where we are.
Absolutely no and and thanks for the intro super dope back on for you And you know, you're you're I feel like getting to be an OG in this space, right? So no and you know, we let's talk a little bit more about kind of like intro in general So when did it come about when did you get the idea?
creating tropia and what was the inspiration behind it? So basically the free change the way we build companies change the way we approach our career
years and the lines between contribution, investment, using products are blurring and we can see the new professional and the new organization be born and
And in Tropia, it wants to be on the frontier of these changes. So we are building the platform which combines the best of traditional professional networks like LinkedIn, Employer Federal Programs,
and on-chain identities. So now you can, all in your professional profile, grow your on-chain reputation and best part, leverage this reputation to access different opportunities, both job opportunities
investment opportunities and yeah basically this is the new chapter in professional networks and we were excited to be one of the first utilizing the free stack to build you know better better way to connect and interact with each other
Absolutely. No, super cool. Then, you know, for Ford, like if you had to give kind of like a summary of intropia for those that don't know, what would that be? Like what's a good summary explaining kind of what intropia is?
is a professional network where you can build your professional profile and reputation and access different opportunities such as jobs, volunteers, grants, hackathons and the best part that you can also monetize your network not
not only your skills, introducing your friends and followers for different opportunities and your own pretty solid rewards. So for example, if you refer your friend for a DevOps position at Massive, you can make up to $10,000 just from one recommendation.
Absolutely. So, how is, you know, how is in tropia, you know, different, I guess, other than, you know, than normal web-to protocols that are out there, like what kind of makes a unique? Oh, there is a lot of
differentiators. I believe that traditional Web2 professional networks failed on three main points. First is connections. Linky then has hundreds
of millions of profiles. But then you cannot find like right people, if you can find right people you cannot message them and expect the answer because they over-flood with you know spammers and scammers and so on and when someone message you most likely
they're going to message you to offer some stupid services and so on. We solve this with Gating who you can share your contact and who can message you and you also can charge people for sending your messages
or booking your time. Second thing where LinkedIn and our other competitors fail is trust. Again, on LinkedIn I can say that I had MBA at Stanford, was working for Google and Facebook and all of this can be
lie and there is no way to prove it or to verify it. And what we built in, we built in like on chain reputation where you can be sure that a person claim is not just a claim, is like the actual fact you can trust. And third is
how LinkedIn and similar platforms monetize your data. First of all, you are not in control on who can access to your data and your data is sold to hundreds of different corporations for education, marketing, proposals,
anything like this. And you make zero money from LinkedIn, right? They capture 100% of the value and they basically exploit and extract this value from the users. And our vision is to capture all the value inside
of the network and redistributed to the users, contributors and other people that invest in success of this network. So it's much more fair, efficient and trusted way to connect with others in the free and beyond.
Absolutely. No, I think you may great distinctions there kind of between just web to you know apps or you know, guess protocols like LinkedIn versus you know what you guys are offering kind of the benefits of that so no
Thanks for that. And then, you know, if you had to say, you know, what are some of the best features or the most, you know, the features that mostly stand out on Intropia, what would those be? So to trust the world,
how three different audiences. First is professionals, second is organizations, and third is introducers or communities. For professionals, I think the two best features
is one single window where you can explore all different opportunities and find those that perfectly fit your skills, goals and experience. Second is ability to apply
to all these opportunities in one click and track the status of your application. So when you're applying to jobs before in Tropia, you'd never know if your application was reviewed, if you don't receive any feedback because
They just missed your application and you need to reply or they reviewed and decided not to answer. In our system professionals always know if their job application was reviewed and what
What's what's it status for organizations we offer? Just better way to hire people it's faster it gives you better quality of candidates and it's cheaper than
working with any recruitment agency available in the market. And for communities and introducers, basically, this is a new way, new revenue stream that they can use
to help their friends, followers, community members to land jobs and promising startups while generating additional income for themselves or their treasury.
Absolutely. That's super cool and some of the features that stand out from Intropia. In a perfect world, let's say Web 3 was at the same level as Web 2, what would be some of the benefits
or just in general, right? Like what are some of the benefits of using intropia rather than like, you know, indeed, of the world, or LinkedIn, or you know, all those kind of like Web2 websites? Sure. So I personally believe that we are better on almost every single, you know, level.
of the solutions like in detail in Kedin. So first of all, it's so much more beautiful. We have like amazing brilliant design team and we are building this for people in order to be able to share it as you
your CV or link in BIO or your portfolio and it looks just amazing. It's stunning and we're working on the next version and I'm very excited about what we're going to release soon. Second is
control over your data, who can access to this data, and it's control who can message you, and it gives you like so much more opportunities to monetize your skills, your trust, your following and so on. For it, which is probably
The best part is that you make money not when you earn something, when you work. You earn money every time when someone earns money on the platform. So if John got a job via entropy and entropy I made, let's say 5,000
$1.00 as a fee. This fee is going to be distributed for all the users based on their reputation and so on. So basically you can build your profile, you can invite a couple of dozens of friends and then just chill and you're
money from your friends, your own money, or just some random people on the platform because it's all based on, you know, the three principles and all the value is not extracted by us, but, you know, returned to those who created this value.
our users. Perfect. Yeah, no, absolutely. And then, you know, I guess talk to us a little bit more about, you know, our partnership, right? So Zebic and in TROPE, you're going to be working together. Tell us a little bit more of, you know, of that, how that's going to look like and how we're going to be collaborating.
Sure, so first of all, I'm very excited about this partnership and I believe that how very complimentary products that might be used by millions of workers in the free and beyond. So there is, I think,
three main vectors that we're going to explore. So first of all, we're going to list Zebac and all your opportunities on our platform and our community will be able to access
your opportunities and you'll be able to hire great people using in Tropea. Second that you can use in Tropea to incentivize talent or any other roles with your open, you know, token or NFC.
or Poops, whatever. So let's say you post a job for full-stack developer at the back and you say that anyone who recommends right people will get this exclusive NFT that will give you special rights in the community and so on and incentivize your own
community to become your recruiters. So I think this is one of the most beautiful parts and I'm looking forward to to test it out. Second is using Zebac solution inside the file platform. So
Basically, as I said, that houses introduced to your own feature, where anyone can become a recruiter or a introducer, and your money just sharing jobs with their friends and followers. And when someone is hired, this reward usually is not paid instantly.
It's wasted our time and I believe that Zebac might be ideal solution for programming, this rewards for our users. And third being such, you know, complementary products, I believe that in Tropi and Zebac,
will exchange the clients, partners and so on and we could help each other to grow faster and provide more value for our clients. Absolutely. I think you hit it right in the head and we are super excited to be using solutions like you guys.
the post our opportunities and the kind of, you know, just basically promote projects that are very good for just day-to-day use cases, right? Like LinkedIn is an app that is used every day. Web 3 is growing, so I mean for
You know, on intensive purposes, we would want to contribute job application apps and and protocols, etc. So absolutely. I'm excited to be working with you guys and I guess for you guys, like what are some of the roadmap plans? I mean, we're halfway through the year a little bit more. So like what are some
of the roadmap plans you guys have for 2023. So currently we launched everything that we planned for we won of our product. There is just some you know small, edit small release
on our existing platform and currently we working on the view to of our platform which is going to be fully on chain and the biggest thing is this we call them digital twins so essentially
This is your professional profile where you can connect all your web 2 and the free accounts, create your integral identity and grow your own chain reputation and create this profile. You'll be offered
by different jobs, boundaries, grants, aides, jobs, events, and so on and so on. So imagine LinkedIn profile that actually works for you and the one you can trust and so on and so on. So this is probably the biggest thing we're working on and I'm super, super excited.
to launch it in the next three months. Absolutely. No, it's super excited for you guys. You know, just basically keep grinding and anything that we can help on, you know, that's what we're here for. So, no, that's
Pretty much it from from my end. So in terms of just anybody here that's listening to live. If anybody has any questions for Max, feel free to like raise your hand and I can get you guys in. I mean, if not, feel free to go and follow in Tropia. So at INTRO PIA.
that's at in Tropia and feel free to send them any messages or hit up Max or oh just go through yeah go through the main account and just ask whatever you got any questions you might have they're great people over there so Max anything else you want to add that's pretty much all I have man
Yeah, so I'm super excited about our partnership. Thank you very much for inviting me to share our story and I'm inviting everyone who listens to us to follow, to create an account in TROPA. It's fully working.
you can enjoy it today, you can set up your telegram feed and basically yeah I'm how open-dams so anyone please welcome I'll be happy to assist you with finding jobs, recruitment or anything you might think of
There you guys go. So no, we want to appreciate you Max for joining us today in the AMA, you know, super glad we had you on today and again anybody anybody listen to this feel free to go check them out go follow them
Check their project out and if you guys are interested in any web three positions definitely go out there and check what they have online. So Max, thank you so much, man. And I mean we'll keep obviously talking behind the scenes and
Super excited to be working with you awesome awesome. Thank you very much. It was pleasure to talk and it's great great opportunity to work together. So thank you very much and have a beautiful day
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