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Foster: Pure-software AI SOC companies will fail pivoting to services
“I think most of the other AI SOC software companies are going to end up either trying to become services companies, which they're going to fail miserably at because they've never actually built or run services companies. And guess what? It's way harder than yo…”
Eric Foster Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 46:44 How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
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Foster: Tenex engineers ship more code quarterly than during hyperscaler careers
“What we've hired a huge amount of hyperscaler software engineers. It's one of our big differentiators over the rest of our competitors in the managed security services industry is like I've invested in these world-class software engineers that none of my compe…”
Eric Foster Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 32:26 How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Foster: Tenex on track to reach $43M revenue in year one
“We're going to close this first year. It's still a little bit of time left, but we'll probably land this first year, call it forty three million in revenue.”
Eric Foster Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 36:51 How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
Assertion Contradicted
Srugo: Tenex Grew From Zero to $40M ARR in One Year
“So if you look at Tenex growing from zero to forty million ARR in one year, which is insane. It's literally on a track to be like the next whiz.”
Pablo Srugo Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 17:20 Solo Episode: B2B SaaS is dead. Here's what the best AI founders are doing instead. · PMF Show
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foster: Tenex contracted top-5 financial firm in under 60 days
“We went from first contact to them to contracting in less than 60 days. From the first time we met with them to a signed contract in less than 60 days”
Eric Foster Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 42:01 How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foster: Half of Tenex's first 10 customers were Fortune 500 companies
“The vast majority of our first customers were all global 2000. You know, our first 10 customers, half of them were publicly traded fortune 500 companies.”
Eric Foster Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 53:47 How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
Disclosure
Foster: Tenex customer ASPs cluster around $500k and $100k ARR
“One big cluster sitting right around 500 K and there's one big cluster sitting right around a hundred K and it's a, you know, double bell curve.”
Eric Foster Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 55:06 How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
Disclosure
Foster: Tenex revenue is 40% outbound, 40% channel, and 20% inbound
“We are probably a third of our business is like direct outbound sales. About a third of our business comes through the channel where we've got other partners bringing us and then about a third, and it's actually probably more like 20%. So if you looked at it, …”
Eric Foster Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 1:03:18 How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
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