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How Block Deployed AI Agents to 12,000 Employees in 8 Weeks w/ MCP | Angie Jones
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- Jan 21, 2026
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Summary
How do you deploy AI agents to 12,000 employees in just 8 weeks? How do you do it safely? Angie Jones, VP of Engineering for AI Tools and Enablement at Block, joins the show to share exactly how her team pulled it off. Block (the company behind Square and Cash App) became an early adopter of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and built Goose, their open-source AI agent that's now a reference implementation for the Agentic AI Foundation. Chain of Thought is hosted by Conor Bronsdon.