Model Context Protocol
also referred to as: mcp
8 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2025 by Jason Lemkin · said 26 times in 8 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Lemkin (10), Guillaume Cabane (7), Brett Queener (2), Amelia Salyers (2)
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2026 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- The Agents #011 - From 0 to 20 Agents and Back Again, Are Agents Finally Consolidating?
- Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
- The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
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2025 15 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- Building AI-First Companies: Insights from Zapier’s CEO Wade Foster
- Marketing in the Age of AI with Wiz's CMO Raaz Herzberg
- Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- SaaS + AI: It’s Time to Move Much Faster with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
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Everything said about Model Context Protocol, oldest first
May 21, 2025 neutral
Jul 2, 2025 positive
Levie: Model Context Protocol integrations enhance rather than erode enterprise software moats
“I would actually argue that MCP is a thing that only enhances the underlying moat. Because data wants to be free. That doesn't mean that there's no moat around managing the data and making it useful. It wants to be incorporated in some other workflow. So for u…”
Sep 17, 2025 neutral
Foster: MCP will not replace APIs; both will remain valuable and coexist
“I think the answer is we're going to end up having both. I think APIs are very, are deterministic and cheap. Works the same way every single time. And so there's a whole set of use cases that Do you want it to work that way? Where MCP is a lot more flexible. T…”
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Lemkin: Running Claude over Replit via MCP forces cleaner code completion
“These models are goal-seeking, right? And they want to finish projects. So Replit just wants, Amelia, you know this, Replit wants to finish. Replit wants to finish, and so does CloudCode if you use it on an own. But when, but if you use Cloud on top of it coun…”
Jul 17, 2026 bearish
Lemkin: Claude's MCP capabilities threaten dedicated agent orchestration startups
“It is a threat to folks that are building these sort of agent substrates, which is that we, listen, every time we talk about our agents and stuff, a bunch of folks will tweet back or say, Hey, listen, I've got the substrate. I've got the, I've got a way to con…”
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Bialecki: Software developers should collect product feedback directly from AI agents
“Whether you're building agents, they're going to be the super users, or if you're building the software that you expect, either humans, we're going to plug into MCP or other people are going to expose to algorithms and agents, expect them to be super users. Al…”
Sep 2, 2026 neutral
Glean CPO: MCP runtime fetching cannot replace offline-processed enterprise context
“The key thing is MCP, as much independence as it brings, it's a very runtime fetch of information. You are bound by the latency or you are bound by the search APIs under the hood provided by these themes. So it's a very different paradigm when you rely on High…”