Tenex

10 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 5, 2025 by Alex Lieberman · said 16 times in 4 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Nov 5, 2025 bullish
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Lieberman says Tenex's top output-based engineer will make $1M next year
“Our clients pay us based on output, and our engineers are paid on output as well. And the reason that is so valuable is we can hire truly the best engineers I've ever worked with, because just as an example, like our best engineer will make a million bucks in …”
Alex Lieberman Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 5:40 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
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Lieberman plans to build a dedicated media arm for Tenex's AI agency
“Ultimately the goal is to build kind of 10 X media on top of 10 X, where there's only one place that executives go to make AI more actionable.”
Alex Lieberman Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 1:00:53 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025 positive
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Lieberman: Half of Tenex Clients Come Through Free AI Diagnostics
“Half of our clients have come through these free AI diagnostics we do. And so we run these diagnostics. They take two weeks. Most of it's been automated. The only thing that's not automated is basically three hours of stakeholder interviews, but half of those …”
Alex Lieberman Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 20:14 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025
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Lieberman: Modern AI dev shops use intelligence arbitrage, not labor arbitrage
“It's basically if traditional dev orgs or dev shops are labor arbitrage, we're intelligence arbitraging.”
Alex Lieberman Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 13:22 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
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Hazarkhani: Failing to leverage near-free AI agents is a skill issue
“To that I say, basically, if you have a free or near free junior employee and you can't, and you have unlimited versions of this, you could spin up infinite numbers of these near free junior employees. If you can't find a way to generate leverage from that, th…”
Arman Hazarkhani Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 47:31 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025
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Hazarkhani: Tenex acquires all customer business through LinkedIn, not X
“All of our businesses come through LinkedIn, not Twitter.”
Arman Hazarkhani Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 21:57 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025
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Hazarkhani says manual typing in an IDE is an outdated practice
“No one on our team actually types letters into an IDE. If I walk through a WeWork and I see someone typing letters in an IDE, they're working in like, 1990, right?”
Arman Hazarkhani Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 10:57 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025 positive
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Hazarkhani: Engineering drives most Tenex revenue, but AI transformation grows fastest
“So most of the revenue comes from engineering, but our fastest growing part of the business is AI transformation.”
Arman Hazarkhani Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 1:28 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025 positive
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Lieberman uses 12-month engineering contracts as Trojan horse for AI consulting
“How do we use that to sign 12 month contracts that is highly retentive, highly recurring, and we use that as the Trojan horse to do transformation work after having that line of business.”
Alex Lieberman Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 3:55 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
Nov 5, 2025 positive
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Hazarkhani: Tenex tracks daily margin per employee via output-based pay
“We have the margin down to the day, like we know our margin per employee because we're, we generate, we charge on output and we pay on output and everyone's aligned.”
Arman Hazarkhani Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 56:48 #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”?
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