# 🎙️ S8 E9 | People Before Protocols w/Irina Marinescu (buidlbox) *On our penultimate episode of the season, we’re speaking with Irina Marinescu, co-founder and CEO of buidlbox, a global hub for builders to learn, earn, and connect in web3.* By [Rehash 🎙️](https://paragraph.com/@rehash) · 2024-06-13 --- _Rehash is the first community-owned podcast, where community members help decide key podcast decisions, like which guests we host on the podcast._ _Rehash is hosted and produced by_ [_Diana Chen_](https://twitter.com/ddwchen)_._ [Collect](/@rehash/ZwI6aRGAhODNNt98uRPG) _On our penultimate episode of the season, we’re speaking with_ [_Irina Marinescu_](https://x.com/irinamarinescu)_, co-founder and CEO of_ [_buidlbox_](https://x.com/buidlbox)_, a global hub for builders to learn, earn, and connect in web3._ _Irina was nominated by_ [_Rachael_](https://x.com/rachaelplz) _and voted onto the podcast by_ [_Rachael_](https://x.com/rachaelplz)_,_ [_Gary Sheng_](https://x.com/garysheng)_,_ [_Tim Black_](https://x.com/iamTWB_)_, and_ [_Meg Lister_](https://x.com/MegLister)_._ [ ![](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f140f5ad756e14ab2e43bef36) https://spotify.com S8 E9 | People Before Protocols w/Irina Marinescu (buidlbox) ------------------------------------------------------------ Listen to this episode from Rehash: A Web3 Podcast on Spotify. ](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eKSzhY320jm39U7YGdlHC?si=RF3-d9zrTGeKRm9Ke4_1YQ) ### **Subscribe to Rehash** [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rehash-a-web3-podcast/id1620436349) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/0ih4vN6lXKh4jt7VQYfjva) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClv_0972tZY42bnQuyPBRqA) | [Lenstube](https://lenstube.xyz/channel/rehash.lens) | [Substack](https://rehashweb3.substack.com/) * * * On our penultimate episode of the season, we’re speaking with **Irina Marinescu**, co-founder and CEO of **buidlbox**, a global hub for builders to learn, earn, and connect in web3. Irina is also a mentor at **Tachyon** and a founder of **Women in Crypto**, and she previously worked as General Counsel at **Gitcoin** throughout its disaffiliation process to decentralize Gitcoin Holdings (which later became Supermodular) from GitcoinDAO back in Spring 2022. It was during this transition period that **Gitcoin’s bounties and hackathons product**, which was originally launched in 2017 by Kevin Owocki, began morphing into what is now buidlbox, and in February 2023 at ETH Denver, buidlbox officially launched. Around that time, Supermodular (previously Gitcoin Holdings) decided to shift its entire focus to supporting the thriving buidlbox platform. In this episode, Irina shares updates on where buidlbox stands today and how it is shaping the **future of learning and work**, what she learned from the Gitcoin disaffiliation process, both from a legal and an organizational perspective, and how non-technical people can get involved in hackathons and building in the space. 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