Building the future of MCP with Tadas Antanavicius

“STDIO servers are like desktop apps in the 90s. Remote servers are the web. Both will stick around, but mass adoption needs remote.” — Tadas Antanavicius

From Goldman Sachs engineer to startup marketer to MCP pioneer — Tadas’s journey shows how unlikely skills converge in the AI era. In this conversation, he shares why MCP (Model Context Protocol) feels like the open internet reborn: a protocol that flips control back to creators, sets the foundation for discovery and trust, and avoids the pitfalls of closed ecosystems.

You’ll learn:

• How Pulse MCP became the first registry and a cornerstone for discovery
• The tradeoffs between STDIO vs. remote servers and what it means for adoption
• Why auth and security are the hardest parts of MCP’s evolution
• How developers should approach tool design like product managers