Arman Hezarkhani

Co-Founder, Tenex · 1 appearance on the record.

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Arman Hezarkhani co-founded Tenex alongside Alex Lieberman to deliver enterprise AI engineering via an outcome-based compensation model. Previously, he founded the venture-backed financial education platform Parthean and worked on developer initiatives at Google.

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Insight
Hezarkhani: Traditional startup employees lack incentives to maximize AI productivity
“Even if you have some equity, even if you deeply care about the mission, you're not deeply incentivized day in and day out to try new AI tools and push yourself to work better and faster and smarter.”
Arman Hezarkhani Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 5:01 ⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
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Hezarkhani: Tenex will have engineers making over $1M cash next year
“We will probably have more than one engineer make million dollars cash next year based on this model. And that is just with story point compensation. It's very likely that we will have more than a handful of folks make more than a million dollars next year.”
Arman Hezarkhani Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 9:03 ⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
Opinion
Hezarkhani: MCP is essentially just a three-letter word for API
“I just think that MCP is a three-letter word for API”
Arman Hezarkhani Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 23:47 ⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
Insight
Hezarkhani: Structured TypeScript architectures allow AI agents to operate autonomously for longer
“We feel pretty strongly in like high structure allows for agents to work autonomously for longer. And so our default stack is TypeScript front end TypeScript back end with a shared file where, or a shared folder where all of our shared types and schemas and th…”
Arman Hezarkhani Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 12:38 ⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex Nov 19, 2025 8m
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