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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Model Context Protocol comes up on Latent Space, the Startup Ideas Podcast, the a16z Podcast, TBPN, the Official SaaStr Podcast
Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- ▶ 48:21 Jason Lemkin And I was using MCP or something. 3 times in the scene
WebMCP: Let AI Agents pay you money
- ▶ 0:53 Greg Isenberg What WebMCP is, how it differs from MCPs, why it matters, where the opportunities lie, and I give you two startup ideas that I think could cash flow that you can start today.
- ▶ 1:46 unnamed speaker It's MCP, but in the UI, in the browser, and this is like a brand new experimental feature from Google and Microsoft.
- ▶ 18:42 Greg Isenberg I mean, I'm just curious, you know, where MCP, in your mind, where MCP fits, which I think is like another way of saying, you know, how do you, like in which sectors, niches, should you be implementing WebMCP? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:26 unnamed speaker Tools, maybe a MCP server for them, and you tell them that like, look, this is new emerging stuff, or you're learning this because it is this new emerging stuff, so that when it does get adopted, you're the first mover, you have the first… 2 times in the scene
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 27:31 Jason Lemkin So I had, I had Google drive to claw to fable to MCP. 2 times in the scene
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
- ▶ 9:37 Shawn Wang And MCP is just another form of tool, right?
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- ▶ 50:45 Shawn Wang I do think that just relying on, like, just-in-time pulling of data for, let's say, via MCP, CLI, API, whatever you, whatever you do, still not enough. 2 times in the scene
Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- ▶ 27:54 Ryan Carson Well, we need to connect the MCP.
The Agents #011 - From 0 to 20 Agents and Back Again, Are Agents Finally Consolidating?
- ▶ 2:59 unnamed speaker And for us, it has become really clawed MCP and interrupt. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:29 unnamed speaker I will say fun because I didn't set out to have Tenk become our ads expert, if you will, and without the recent, like, Replit and Cloud MCP integration, which is literally a week and a half old now, this wouldn't have worked because Replit 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:07 unnamed speaker Um, um, so, so just to answer a question in the chat is, um, Claude became a better manager of all of our agents, so, um, because now it has this MCP, Claude can talk to Tenke, he can talk to, um, Annie, he can talk to QB, and so it's…
How David Chevalier Hit $15M ARR With a Chrome Extension and No Sales Team - Surfe
- ▶ 15:01 Nathan Latka What percent of that revenue would you say actually comes from usage happening via your MCP, via people using it like we're seeing on the screen? 6 times in the scene
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
- ▶ 7:14 Amelia Salyers I can't, um, MCP into your owned Replit apps. 2 times in the scene
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:47 unnamed speaker People often ask us, well, I mean, Cloud can also connect with enterprise systems through MCP.
- ▶ 26:20 unnamed speaker Um, the, the way, like, like, I think, like, if you think about most, most enterprises today, the way they're rolling out AI is that they actually just throw it in, throw it into the system and connect AI with all of enterprise systems in…
The Hidden Layer Every Al Product Needs Today | Atin Sanyal Founder, Galileo
- ▶ 1:06:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia But that was called by MCP, right? 2 times in the scene
The "Token Heist" Wiping Out AI Startups | Emily Sands (Stripe)
- ▶ 9:59 Matt Turck So, ACP is a little bit like MCP before commerce, right?
- ▶ 1:01:45 Emily Glassberg Sands Like an agent requests access to a service, um, and it can be whatever an API or an MCP server or whatever, and then the service responds with a payment request and then the agent pays, um, and there's no kind of account creation or…
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 5:32 Seema Amble I think Stephen will talk more about MCP, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:26 Elena Burger Uh, I know Steven, you wrote last year a piece, uh, in reaction to, to the rise of MCP servers. 2 times in the scene
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:51 Clay Bavor And we, we began by building what we call our MCP gateway. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 29:14 Mike Krieger It's, we're still asking people to understand way too many concepts of like, what is, what is, you know, the difference between like my sandbox environment and production or like connected MCP as myself or others, or how should I store…
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 29:45 Paul Copplestone And these are the tools that are using more of the CLI, uh, MCP type workload, and we're seeing huge adoption from them.
- ▶ 34:32 Paul Copplestone Dashboard, CLI, MCP, all of them should kind of match.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 46:23 Benedict Evans Um, you know, you don't need an API anymore, you just have an MCP server, and like, people will just plug in the agent, we'll just plug into that.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 29:10 M.G. Siegler Like there's certain, certain, um, sites and services that use the different, you know, MCP and all the different sort of layers that you can, that are effectively API layers to be able to call up certain things within, within the services…
The spring updates on AI
- ▶ 29:54 Benedict Evans Like, is MCP going to be the thing?
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 12:54 Kyle Daigle You know, it's usually like, uh, how do like a single skill that's going to identify the most important marketing information, given any MCP server, like this is the most important thing less about.
"We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 43:04 Bill Gurley So, MCP is actually run by the Linux Foundation, and if you think about any surface area where a model might interact with other software, the more of those connectors that can be open sourced and commoditized, it would lower, this is what
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 17:03 Cole Murray Whether through CLI, MCPs, other tools, you can then hook that into your production systems, primarily for like SRE type use cases, but you are not necessarily like trying to test your prod internal microservice through the system.
- ▶ 28:18 Walden Yan The thing we found is, so like MCPs, um, obviously it has been like, it's like really big explosion of, oh, you can go like integrate it with all these different things. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:45 Walden Yan We've actually given Devon an MCP so they can just go arbitrarily message other Devons and create new Devons, et cetera.
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 36:40 Aaron Levie And, and now I want to MCP into whatever the, the data, you know, store is of that thing.
The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis
- ▶ 23:03 Adel El Hallak It is, um, MCP tools or skills that it has access to.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 44:31 Shawn Wang I'm just kind of going through like the mental list of things that are in your favor, which is for example, MCP versus CLI. 2 times in the scene
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 1:14 Matt Turck Models, sandboxes, tools, MCP, memory, orchestration, and where each piece is heading.
- ▶ 11:57 Ivan Borzin It's just not exposed or through the MCP tool actually.
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 1:11:12 David Baszucki The beauty though, that we have all of our Roblox cloud open to MCP server and all of that stuff.
SAP: Bringing the ‘Operating System’ of a Company into the AI Era with CTO Philipp Herzig
- ▶ 13:32 Philipp Herzig Same with MCP. 3 times in the scene
⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ▶ 24:00 Emil Eifrem Um, people don't talk about this, but like actually the initial MCP release includes like a tiny little in memory graph database.
How AI Agents are Changing Investing · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 29:02 John Milles-Kiriazzi Explain that to our listeners. 4 times in the scene
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
- ▶ 0:03 Simon Last I'm still bullish on MCPs in, in a certain environment. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:11 Shawn Wang Talking about integrations, you prompted me, so I got to ask MCP, CLI, what's going on? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:50 Sarah Sachs So we will always support our MCP insofar as other people are using MCPs, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:04 Simon Last So, so we have like a tool integration abstraction, for example, and then MCP is like a type of integration.
How AI Agent Swarms Might Be AI's Next Leap — With Guillaume de Saint-Marc
- ▶ 17:07 Guillaume de Saint-Marc And this is where you have protocols like A to A or MCP, which, which leaves.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 19:32 Matt Turck Is it MCPs? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:40 Felix Rieseberg What kind of MCP connectors do I install?
- ▶ 54:24 Felix Rieseberg MCP connectors are underrated. 6 times in the scene
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:16 Aaron Levie Or MCP or whatever, and the, the paradigm that appears to be taking off and is quite successful so far in, in terms of efficacy is what if you give a coding agent access to your SAS tools and, ah, a coding agent access to, you know, your,…
#2302 Superpowering Claude with 10,000 apps
- ▶ 4:06 Andrew Warner All right, and so now it is connected to your Slack, and while it's doing this, and it's doing all this research, what's the difference between this and MCP that you did before that also connected, um, all the tools? 4 times in the scene
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ▶ 38:29 Ryan Lopopolo Uh, there was one point where we had wired Playwright directly up to the Electron app, uh, with MCP. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:54 unnamed speaker Integration layer, MCP is dead.
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 55:24 John Collison But no, I'll say one thing that works really well is the GCP MCP is awesome, where your AI can just interact
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 6:28 Peter Yang Um, but I do think, like, um, like, ever since I set up all these apps, like Mercury, MCP, and all this kind of crap on my open call, like, I don't actually open those apps much anymore, you know.
- ▶ 26:22 unnamed speaker We don't even, even CLI versus MCP.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 37:25 Marc Andreessen And so like this whole idea where we need like MCP and these like products, fancy protocols, whatever.
Firecrawl AI clearly explained (and how to make $$)
- ▶ 11:35 Greg Isenberg And that's the way I, at least I think about it, which is your MCP protocol.
Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- ▶ 1:08:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You focus a lot on MCP gateway, right? 10 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 9:00 Alessio Fanelli You have obviously MCPs, you have skills, you have like, obviously the models, which is a big part.
- ▶ 14:40 Felix Rieseberg You're noticing that a lot of people, especially as the models get better, a lot of people throw up their hands when it comes to MCP connectors and they say, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna go through like 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Felix Rieseberg And you can kind of, kind of already see this in like skills and NTP servers, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:25 Alessio Fanelli I think with MCPs, people do the same thing.
Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
- ▶ 31:50 Remy Gaskill We now need to connect our tools, because by default, most of these agent harnesses, they just, um, have web search baked in, but if you want to actually start linking it up to your tools like Gmail, Calendar, and everything else, which is… 6 times in the scene
⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
- ▶ 1:55 Samuel Colvin I don't think we've done anything particularly special in our MCP server, but because the AI can just go write SQL, it's way more powerful than I think on many platforms.
- ▶ 3:42 Samuel Colvin Uh, using code to call MCP servers.
- ▶ 29:50 Samuel Colvin So basically you can define an agent entirely in a TOML file, everything from the model to the system prompt to all of the capabilities, whether they be code mode or compaction or registering an MCP server. 3 times in the scene
Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
- ▶ 27:57 Matt Turck What about MCP, for example? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:22 Matt Turck And maybe, uh, taking a step back as we get to the end of this conversation, because you need to go on stage at this data on our conference in a, in a few minutes, if the harness is, um, uh, converging and like every, every agent gets a…
#2300 Revenue jumped when he sold to AI agents
- ▶ 1:49 Nevo David So the first one was the, uh, MCP hype. 4 times in the scene
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 9:23 John Collison It feels to me like a very interesting time in agentic engineering because, you know, you were talking about this, you know, domain of harness engineering and like people having skills and MCP and everything like that.
- ▶ 17:52 Bret Taylor So you have all these fancy MCP things, and we're doing like English over PSTN.
⚡️ OpenClaw's Memory Sucks and the fix is simple — Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
- ▶ 0:59 Dhravya Shah So we had an NCP launch, and then we had another launch for the app itself. 3 times in the scene
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 1:10:08 Kyle Kranen You could still do it by API, but like, there's this highlighting of like, what is the difference between like a CLI and an MCP, right?
SaaS is minting millionaires again (here's how)
- ▶ 14:04 Greg Isenberg So, uh, this is using things like MCP.
The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
- ▶ 44:10 Jason Lemkin I don't think it matters whether it's MCP or anything there.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:18 Boris Cherny It was QuadCode, MCP, and the desktop app.
- ▶ 13:54 unnamed speaker Bug fixing is just going to century copy markdown, you know, pretty soon it's just going to be straight MCP.
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:33 Peter Steinberger I'm also very happy that I didn't even build an MCP support. 7 times in the scene
I got a private lesson on Claude Cowork & Claude Code
- ▶ 7:04 unnamed speaker Um, it can interact with any tool over MCP and it has built in support for Chrome based browsers.
- ▶ 12:12 Greg Isenberg And could it use like email, you know, let's say we wanted to send this to somebody, you know, finance team, like, can you, maybe we'll get into it later, but you know, with things like connections and MCPs, um, is that possible?
Claude Code Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 22:11 Zevi Arnovitz So now basically what Cloud is going to do is it's going to use MCP, which is basically, uh, uh, technology that was created by Anthropic, which gives AI the ability to use tools.
Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
- ▶ 11:43 Alessio Fanelli We'll put the diagram in the video where you had the LLM gateway, you have like the whole MCP layer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:32 Alessio Fanelli What about MCPs as like sub agents? 2 times in the scene
Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- ▶ 47:48 Micah Hill-Smith Based on it, the things that, like, I find most impressive currently that I am somewhat surprised work really well in late 25 are that I can have models use Superbase MCP to read only, of course, run a whole bunch of SQL queries to do…
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:28 Matt Fitzpatrick But the reality is if you think about that, this is an open architecture ecosystem and you're gonna adopt things like MCP or
[State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual
- ▶ 14:20 Nina Lopatina I would say, you know, it didn't come out this year, but I think MCP has been a huge driver of context engineering. 8 times in the scene
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 0:17 Shawn Wang Uh, welcome back, David from Anthropic slash MCP. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:40 Alessio Fanelli Um, I'm curious when the Agenteke Engineering Foundation got formed, or just the Agenteke Foundation, was there any discussion about any of these other protocols being a part of it, or, you know, Sean wrote a post called YMCP one, um,… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:43 Shawn Wang Uh, so we're going to meet some of the others later, but maybe we'll just focus back on the sort of MCP development. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 David Soria Parra MCP should also enable agents, and agents are inherently somewhat stateful, and there's some form of, like, long-term communication going between, like, the client and the server, and so we always looked for something like that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 David Soria Parra And so that's why we run MCP as like a really traditional open source, um, project with like a core maintainer group of like eight people that basically decide everything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:07 David Soria Parra We're making use of things like the MCP Atlas that we are like having in our model card of like making sure that like we were taking this large set of tools in the wild and make sure that our models work with that. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:36 Shawn Wang Well, I think a lot of people are trying to place MCP versus skills. 6 times in the scene
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