Pierre-Louis Theron

co-founder of Alpic

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Pierre-Louis Theron is the co-founder and CEO of Alpic. Theron studied engineering. In 2013 he co-founded a company with two co-founders.

Education and career

Theron studied engineering. In 2013 he co-founded a company with two co-founders. The company went through the Techstars Boston program in 2014 and raised $6 million. It was acquired by a firm that is now Lumen Technologies. [1]

Alpic

In July 2025 Theron reunited with a former co-founder to start Alpic. He says Alpic builds tooling and infrastructure for people who will need to build these new interfaces. He says the company wants to be the home for deploying, securing, monitoring and scaling them. [1]

Theron says Alpic built an open-source framework. He says users can use their coding agents together with a skill that the company provides. He also says other people have built off-the-shelf tooling on top of the framework. [1]

He says kiwi.com is one of Alpic's first customers. He says traffic has exploded since dynamic discovery was activated. He adds that Alpic already has many B2B customers. [1]

Views

Theron believes websites are dead. He believes a more AI-native world is emerging, where everything will first happen within the chat interface. He says a model could potentially be connected directly to the back-end system of booking.com. He also says there will be a mix for a very long time that includes the websites available now. [1]

He says he believes in a future where one very capable assistant is connected to a person's whole life, and that he is not sure of its timing. He says it is unclear whether one super agent or many agents will win. He expects the market to settle on a couple of platforms, and thinks people usually settle into two or three places where they feel comfortable. He hopes people converge on one or two protocols, and expects protocol wars first. [1]

Theron says MCP is a protocol built on top of HTTP. He describes an MCP server as a transformation layer between a company's back end and the model. He says he sees MCP as a new front end for agents. He also says MCP is at the equivalent of the internet before Google. [1]

He says APIs were designed to present an exhaustive view of what a back end can do. He adds that when designing them, you design with an intent in mind and not to be exhaustive. He gives flight search as an example that might call six APIs in the background. He names managing the context window as a drawback of MCP, and says two companies implemented code mode, a way of using code to call MCP. [1]

Theron says that when he asked for a pizza to be delivered to his office, he was given three connector options. He says trending measures hits and new connections over the past seven days. He says there are now about 1,500 applications, and that he thinks there were only about 100 in February. [1]

He says there is a premium on being there first, because you learn more. He says the people who crack it early will win a lot when it becomes big. He says it matters to be crisp in how the description of a tool is written, and that the UI and UX is very complicated. [1]

Theron thinks WhatsApp has probably the highest potential to win. He says Alpic built a demo that renders an MCP app in an iframe inside a WhatsApp chat. He says he is now closing deals on WhatsApp. He adds that if it goes in another direction, the company will adapt as a startup. [1]

Personal life

Theron has two children. They are aged five and one. [1]

Timeline

2013
Co-founded a company with two co-founders.[1]
2014
The company went through the Techstars Boston program.[1]
2018
The company's technology kept French streaming platforms running during the FIFA World Cup.[1]
2025
Started Alpic with a former co-founder in July.[1]

Appearances

DateTitleWhere
2026-06-26 MCP is the new front end for the agent internet Beyond the Bubble

Frequently asked questions

What does Pierre-Louis Theron do?

Pierre-Louis Theron co-founded Alpic. He says Alpic builds tooling and infrastructure for people who will need to build new interfaces. He says the company wants to be the home for deploying, securing, monitoring and scaling them.[1]

What company did Pierre-Louis Theron found?

Pierre-Louis Theron started Alpic in July 2025, after reuniting with a former co-founder. In 2013 he had co-founded an earlier company with two co-founders. That company was acquired by a firm that is now Lumen Technologies.[1]

What does Pierre-Louis Theron think about MCP?

Pierre-Louis Theron says he sees MCP as a new front end for agents. He describes an MCP server as a transformation layer between a company's back end and the model. He also says MCP is at the equivalent of the internet before Google.[1]

Does Pierre-Louis Theron think websites will disappear?

Pierre-Louis Theron believes websites are dead. He also says there will be a mix for a very long time that includes the websites available now.[1]

References

  1. MCP is the new front end for the agent internet . Beyond the Bubble , 2026-06-26.
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  1. The host said he is a repeat founder who has already built and sold a company. He is a repeat founder who's already built and sold a company to Fortune 500 companies
  2. He studied engineering. He studied engineering at EOL Central Paris
  3. He co-founded a company in 2013 with two co-founders. where he co-ounded Streamroot in 2013 with two co-founders
  4. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the company's technology kept French streaming platforms running. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, their tech kept French streaming platforms running
  5. The company went through the Techstars Boston program in 2014. they went through the Techstars Boston platform in 2014
  6. The company raised $6 million. in 2014, raised $6 million, were acquired by Century Link
  7. The company was acquired by a firm that is now Lumen Technologies. were acquired by Century Link uh which is now Lumen Technologies
  8. The host said he stayed at Lumen as VP of product in 2019 and ran its global CDN for three years. In 2019, Pier Louie stayed at Lumen as VP of product running their global CDN for 3 years
  9. He reunited with a former co-founder to start Alpic in July 2025. July 2025. uh he reunited with his stream route co-founder Nicolay Rodunov to start Alpic
  10. He says Alpic builds tooling and infrastructure for people who will need to build these new interfaces. create uh tooling and infrastructure for people that will need to build this new interface
  11. He says Alpic wants to be the home for deploying, securing, monitoring and scaling these interfaces. need to deploy them, secure them, monitor them, scale them and we want to be the home for that
  12. He says the company built an open-source framework. the one that we built at Alpig called Skybridge which is an open source framework
  13. He says users can use their coding agents together with a skill that the company provides. you can use your coding agents and use we have a skill
  14. He says other people have built off-the-shelf tooling on top of the framework. there's people that built on top of this framework as well some really cool kind of offtheshelf uh tooling that you can just use
  15. He says kiwi.com is one of Alpic's first customers. We actually have one or four first customer called kiwi.com
  16. He says traffic has exploded since dynamic discovery was activated. since the dynamic discovery uh has been activated so the behavior I just described before that traffic has been literally exploded
  17. He says Alpic already has many B2B customers. in the B2B world which where we have a ton of customers already as well
  18. He believes websites are dead. I believe website are dead
  19. He believes a more AI-native world is emerging, where everything will first happen within the chat interface. I believe that a more AI native world is emerging where first everything will happen within the chat interface
  20. He says a model could potentially be connected directly to the back-end system of booking.com. the model could potentially directly be connected to the backend system of booking.com
  21. He says he believes in a future where one very capable assistant is connected to a person's whole life. super crazy smart assistant that can then be connected to the entire your entire life for the entire system and do stuff for you. I I I believe it 100%
  22. He says he is not sure of the timing of that future. Now the timing I'm not sure
  23. He says it is unclear whether one super agent or many agents will win. I am unclear whether it's going to be one super agent or like a thousand agents
  24. He expects the market to settle on a couple of platforms. My vision is that we always end up in a couple of platforms
  25. He says there will be a mix for a very long time that includes the websites available now. we're going to have a mix for a very long time of what's available right now which is websites
  26. He says MCP is a protocol built on top of HTTP. MCP is is is is an protocol built on top of HTTP
  27. He describes an MCP server as a transformation layer between a company's back end and the model. the MCP server itself, it's basically uh transformation layer between your back end and the model
  28. He says he sees MCP as a new front end for agents. we really see MCP as a new front end. It's a front end for agents
  29. He says APIs were designed to present an exhaustive view of what a back end can do. APIs have been designed mostly to present an exhaustive view of what the back end can do
  30. He says they are designed with an intent in mind, not to be exhaustive. you're designing them with an intent in mind. You're not designing them to be exhaustive
  31. He gives flight search as an example that might call six APIs in the background. flight search that might be coding six APIs in the background
  32. He names managing the context window as a drawback of MCP. the management of the context window because with MCP you tend to send a lot of context back to the model
  33. He says two companies implemented code mode, a way of using code to call MCP. implemented by Antropic and Cloudfare which is called code mode which is a way of actually using code to call the MCP
  34. He says MCP is at the equivalent of the internet before Google. I think we are right now at the equivalent of the internet pre Google
  35. He says that when he asked for a pizza to be delivered to his office, he was given three connector options. Hey, I'm looking for a pizza. Deliver it to my office. And it literally gave me three connector options
  36. He says trending measures hits and new connections over the past seven days. trending which is what we've been exploring is the m over the past seven days how many hits how many new connections you had from users
  37. He says there are now about 1,500 applications, and that he thinks there were only about 100 in February. There's now about 1,500 uh application in JPT. Uh there were like only I think 100 in February
  38. He says there is a premium on being there first, because you learn more. a prime to being there first because you're going to learn more and if you're good you're going to pick up
  39. He says it matters to be crisp in how the description of a tool is written. the description of the tool. So being super crisp on the way you describing
  40. He says the people who crack it early will win a lot when it becomes big. the people that crack it early when it becomes big are going to win a lot
  41. He says the UI and UX is very complicated. I think the UI UX is very very complicated
  42. He thinks WhatsApp has probably the highest potential to win. I think WhatsApp has probably the highest potential to win there
  43. He says Alpic built a demo that renders an MCP app in an iframe inside a WhatsApp chat. we made a demo a week ago to actually render an MCP app in an iframe inside a WhatsApp chat
  44. He says he is now closing deals on WhatsApp. I'm now closing deals on WhatsApp
  45. He has two children, aged five and one. I also have two kids, one five, one one years old
  46. He hopes people converge on one or two protocols, and expects protocol wars first. hopefully people converge around uh uh uh one or two protocols and there's going to be protocol wars
  47. He thinks people usually settle into two or three places where they feel comfortable. people usually are lazy and they just end up in two or three places where they'll feel comfortable
  48. He says that if it goes in another direction, the company will adapt as a startup. if it goes in another direction, we'll we'll just adapt as a startup