Granola CEO: Big Labs Withhold MCP Servers to Lock You Into Their Agents
soleio · x · 2026-11-12
Granola founder Cj Pedregal argues big labs hope you'll find switching agents too painful once set up — which is why they let you connect apps via MCP but don't offer an MCP server themselves, despite inventing MCP. He suggests exporting your agent brief as a portable asset: "they are surprisingly good." VC Mark Goldberg reshared it praising Granola's shipping velocity.
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