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Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. A copyable taint-tracking and approval-gating pattern for your own build. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Lethal trifecta threat model (agentic patterns repo) nibzard (awesome-agentic-patterns)
  2. A calm engineering-management view of guardrails and human-in-the-loop. infoworld.com Article · How Founders Use AI Building AI agents the safe way InfoWorld
  3. How a major platform maps each OWASP risk to concrete mitigations. microsoft.com Article · How Founders Use AI Addressing the OWASP Top 10 Risks in Agentic AI Microsoft Security
  4. Video · How Founders Use AI Simon Willison on Industry's Tardy Response to Prompt Injection Simon Willison
  5. A current-year synthesis tying the main threats to a defense stack. airia.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI Security in 2026: Prompt Injection, the Lethal Trifecta, and How to Defend Airia
  6. The original announcement that started the standard. anthropic.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing the Model Context Protocol Anthropic
  7. The official docs, and the USB-C analogy at the source. modelcontextprotocol.io Guide · How Founders Use AI What is the Model Context Protocol? MCP project
  8. Where the standard stands after a year of industry-wide adoption. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io Article · How Founders Use AI One Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec Release MCP project
  9. The definitive analysis of why this standard beat the alternatives. latent.space Article · How Founders Use AI Why MCP Won Latent Space (swyx)
  10. The origin story from the two engineers who built it. latent.space Podcast · How Founders Use AI The Creators of Model Context Protocol Latent Space (David Soria Parra, Justin Spahr-Summers)
  11. The five reasons MCP won, in five tweets. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Why MCP Won (thread) Latent Space
  12. Video · How Founders Use AI Model Context Protocol (MCP), Clearly Explained (Why it Matters) Greg Isenberg
  13. A free short course that has you shipping an MCP server by the end. deeplearning.ai Course · How Founders Use AI MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps with Anthropic DeepLearning.AI + Anthropic (Elie Schoppik)
  14. Ng's summary of what MCP unlocks and who should learn it. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Andrew Ng announces the MCP course Andrew Ng
  15. A vendor-neutral explanation you can forward to a technical co-founder. ibm.com Article · How Founders Use AI What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? IBM
  16. Google's own adoption is the proof this is now industry plumbing. cloud.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? A guide Google Cloud
  17. The best deep-but-readable community explainer of the hype moment. huggingface.co Article · How Founders Use AI What Is MCP, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About It? Ksenia Se (Hugging Face)
  18. Pick your depth: the same idea told for a child, a founder and an engineer. machinelearningmastery.com Article · How Founders Use AI MCP Explained in 3 Levels of Difficulty Machine Learning Mastery
  19. The adoption timeline (OpenAI, Google DeepMind) in one neutral page. en.wikipedia.org Article · How Founders Use AI Model Context Protocol (Wikipedia) Wikipedia
  20. A live demo of MCPs as app connectors for your AI, zero theory. lennysnewsletter.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI How I AI: Automate the tasks you hate with MCPs How I AI (Lenny's network)
  21. The official starter servers to connect your first real tools. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Model Context Protocol reference servers MCP steering group
  22. The community index of thousands of ready-made connectors. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Awesome MCP Servers punkpeye (community)
  23. The fastest way to discover vetted MCP servers for your stack. github.blog Article · How Founders Use AI Meet the GitHub MCP Registry GitHub
  24. The contrarian essay from the Devin team that reset the industry's defaults. cognition.com Article · How Founders Use AI Don't Build Multi-Agents Walden Yan (Cognition)

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