Michel Tricot

Michel Tricot is the CEO and Co-Founder of Airbyte.

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Beyond ETL: The Case for Context

Michel Tricot
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July 2, 2026
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How to Build Transactional Workflows Across Non-Transactional APIs

Michel Tricot
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June 10, 2026
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The Airbyte Agent CLI is here

Michel Tricot
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June 1, 2026
Designing Idempotent Write Operations for Business Agents
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Designing Idempotent Write Operations for Business Agents

Michel Tricot
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May 20, 2026
Event-Driven vs. Polling Architectures for Agent Triggers
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Event-Driven vs. Polling Architectures for Agent Triggers

Michel Tricot
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May 14, 2026
Managing the Context Window
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Managing the Context Window

Michel Tricot
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May 14, 2026
2 min
Airbyte Agents: A New Era for Airbyte
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Airbyte Agents: A New Era for Airbyte

Michel Tricot
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May 4, 2026
The Airbyte Agent SDK: Ship Agents, Not Data Plumbing
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The Airbyte Agent SDK: Ship Agents, Not Data Plumbing

Michel Tricot
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May 4, 2026
The Airbyte MCP: One Connection, Your Entire Business Context
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The Airbyte MCP: One Connection, Your Entire Business Context

Michel Tricot
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May 4, 2026
The Missing Context Layer: Why Your LLM Agent Can't Do More Than Text-to-SQL
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The Missing Context Layer: Why Your LLM Agent Can't Do More Than Text-to-SQL

Michel Tricot
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April 1, 2026
3 min
Control is Key for Scaling Agentic Products
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Control is Key for Scaling Agentic Products

Michel Tricot
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March 18, 2026
4 min
Building Model Agnostic Infrastructure for Agents
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Building Model Agnostic Infrastructure for Agents

Michel Tricot
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March 11, 2026
2 min
The Decline of RAG in Agentic AI
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The Decline of RAG in Agentic AI

Michel Tricot
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March 4, 2026
3 min
Why Agents Need Ontology
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Why Agents Need Ontology

Michel Tricot
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February 25, 2026
Replication is the Key for Scaling Agents
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Replication is the Key for Scaling Agents

Michel Tricot
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February 13, 2026
2 min
The Two Types of Agent Memory
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The Two Types of Agent Memory

Michel Tricot
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February 5, 2026
3 min
From Warehouses to Operations: Why Agent Architecture Differs
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From Warehouses to Operations: Why Agent Architecture Differs

Michel Tricot
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January 29, 2026
3 min
Agentic Data Infrastructure Must Be Open
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Agentic Data Infrastructure Must Be Open

Michel Tricot
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January 21, 2026
3 min
Open Source: The Innovation Engine Behind Modern AI
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Open Source: The Innovation Engine Behind Modern AI

Michel Tricot
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January 21, 2026
1 min
Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation
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Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation

Michel Tricot
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January 20, 2026
2 min
Connectors are Living Organisms
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Connectors are Living Organisms

Michel Tricot
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January 15, 2026
2 min
Search, Fetch, and Write: A Primer
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Search, Fetch, and Write: A Primer

Michel Tricot
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January 7, 2026
2 min
Introducing Agent Connectors from Airbyte
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Introducing Agent Connectors from Airbyte

Michel Tricot
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December 16, 2025
3 min
The 9 Layers of Agentic Data Infrastructure
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The 9 Layers of Agentic Data Infrastructure

Michel Tricot
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December 11, 2025
The Rise of Agentic Data Infrastructure
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The Rise of Agentic Data Infrastructure

Michel Tricot
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December 3, 2025
Introducing Agent Blueprint
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Introducing Agent Blueprint

Michel Tricot
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December 1, 2025
2 min
Building AI-Ready Data Infrastructure with a Lean Team
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Building AI-Ready Data Infrastructure with a Lean Team

Michel Tricot
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October 22, 2025
1 min
Setting the Agenda: Our Vision for the Future of Data Movement
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Setting the Agenda: Our Vision for the Future of Data Movement

Michel Tricot
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October 13, 2025
Airbyte 2.0: The Data Platform Built for the AI Era
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Airbyte 2.0: The Data Platform Built for the AI Era

Michel Tricot
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September 24, 2025
3 min
Why We Moved to ELv2 (And What It Means for Our Community)
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Why We Moved to ELv2 (And What It Means for Our Community)

Michel Tricot
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August 22, 2025
2 min
July 2025 Launch: Control and Context for AI Readiness
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July 2025 Launch: Control and Context for AI Readiness

Michel Tricot
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July 16, 2025
Protecting Your First-Party Data: My Thoughts in Forbes Magazine
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Protecting Your First-Party Data: My Thoughts in Forbes Magazine

Michel Tricot
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June 3, 2025
2 min
Introducing Capacity-Based Pricing
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Introducing Capacity-Based Pricing

Michel Tricot
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February 11, 2025
5 min read
From API Docs to Data Pipelines in Minutes: How Airbyte 1.0 Unlocks the Long Tail
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From API Docs to Data Pipelines in Minutes: How Airbyte 1.0 Unlocks the Long Tail

John Lafleur
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September 24, 2024
7 min read
How Airbyte 1.0 is Ready for Prime Time
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How Airbyte 1.0 is Ready for Prime Time

John Lafleur
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September 24, 2024
8 min read
Airbyte’s journey until 1.0
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Airbyte’s journey until 1.0

John Lafleur
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September 16, 2024
8 min
Reflecting on 2023 (and what's in store for 2024)
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Reflecting on 2023 (and what's in store for 2024)

Michel Tricot
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December 21, 2023
3 min read
Update on Airbyte’s license
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Update on Airbyte’s license

Michel Tricot
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June 30, 2023
3 min read
Exclusive Insights: An Interview with Michel Tricot at the Snowflake Summit 2023
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Exclusive Insights: An Interview with Michel Tricot at the Snowflake Summit 2023

Michel Tricot
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June 27, 2023
15 min read
The Ravit Show - State of Data Survey, ETL, ELT, AI with Michel Tricot, CEO & Co-Founder, Airbyte
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The Ravit Show - State of Data Survey, ETL, ELT, AI with Michel Tricot, CEO & Co-Founder, Airbyte

Michel Tricot
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June 20, 2023
30 Min Video
Year in Review: Thank YOU for an amazing 2022
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Year in Review: Thank YOU for an amazing 2022

Karen Bajza-Terlouw
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December 23, 2022
5 min
Airbyte turns two!
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Airbyte turns two!

Michel Tricot
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July 27, 2022
3 min read
Airbyte acquires Grouparoo to accelerate Data Movement
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Airbyte acquires Grouparoo to accelerate Data Movement

Michel Tricot
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April 7, 2022
2 min read
Goodbye 2021, Welcome 2022!
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Goodbye 2021, Welcome 2022!

Michel Tricot
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January 25, 2022
8 min read
Airbyte Raises a $150M Series-B to Power the Movement of Data
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Airbyte Raises a $150M Series-B to Power the Movement of Data

Michel Tricot
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December 20, 2021
5 min read
Airbyte’s Strategy to Commoditize All Data Integration
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Airbyte’s Strategy to Commoditize All Data Integration

Michel Tricot
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October 26, 2021
5 min read
A New License to Future Proof the Commoditization of Data Integration
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A New License to Future Proof the Commoditization of Data Integration

Michel Tricot
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September 27, 2021
5 min read
Airbyte Is Turning 1!
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Airbyte Is Turning 1!

Michel Tricot
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July 27, 2021
5 min read
We Raised a $26M Series-A to Change How Data Is Moved
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We Raised a $26M Series-A to Change How Data Is Moved

Michel Tricot
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May 25, 2021
5 min read
We Raised a $5M Seed Round With Accel to Become the Open-Source Standard for Data Integration
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We Raised a $5M Seed Round With Accel to Become the Open-Source Standard for Data Integration

Michel Tricot
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March 2, 2021
6 min read
How to Build Thousands of Connectors
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How to Build Thousands of Connectors

Michel Tricot
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October 30, 2020
5 min read
Open-Source vs. Commercial Software: How to Better Solve Data Integration
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Open-Source vs. Commercial Software: How to Better Solve Data Integration

Michel Tricot
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October 8, 2020
8 mean read
The Hard Things about Pivoting
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The Hard Things about Pivoting

Michel Tricot
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July 28, 2020
6 min read
What The Fundraising Roller Coaster Looks Like Under Covid-19 Lockdown
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What The Fundraising Roller Coaster Looks Like Under Covid-19 Lockdown

Michel Tricot
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May 26, 2020
5 min read
How We Applied Twice for the Same YC Batch
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How We Applied Twice for the Same YC Batch

Michel Tricot
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January 14, 2020