Filevine

17 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 9, 2026 by Ryan Anderson · said 43 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Mar 9, 2026 bullish
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Filevine grew ARR from $30K to $1M between 2016 and 2017
“In 2016, we went from 20 30 K in ARR to a hundred. And then in 2017, we went from a hundred to a million.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 20:56 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026
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Filevine co-founder Jim Blake tried to quit 20 to 30 times
“I got to be honest though, Pablo, Jim, who became like one of my lifelong friends. I mean, there may be no more important relationships to me outside of family than that of Jim Blake. But the man probably quit, or I used to say tried to quit, I don't know, 20,…”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 10:29 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
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Filevine's proprietary e-signature tool has a 98% attach rate
“FileVine built its own e-signature tool, Vinesign. It is a 98% attach rate for our customers.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 40:54 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Insight
Law firms only need Filevine once they develop management problems
“Once I had, I think it was about five to six people, and that's always sort of been my bar. I tell people, like, you need our product when you have a management problem. Up until then, if you can just sort of handle stuff as it comes in on your own, or with on…”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 6:19 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Filevine requires a 1:1 fully burdened spend-to-ARR ratio for events
“We always thought, yeah, we have to be able to prove that we can get a minimum spent ARR one-to-one. And that was not just on the marketing side, but also we took into account, like, fully burdened, how much were we paying those reps for the time that they're …”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 33:21 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Filevine generates more revenue from legal AI than core case management
“More revenue comes from legal AI than it does from our case management system, which is kind of extraordinary, right?”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 48:30 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
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Filevine's legal AI product is growing at 10% week-over-week
“Lois, which is what we call our legal operating intelligence system, that product is growing about 10% week over week.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 53:07 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Anderson: Heavily funded legal AI tools Harvey and Legora are GPT wrappers
“Harvey and Lagora were GPT wrappers when they started, and I think they're basically still GPT wrappers today. I think they know that that's a problem, by the way, that that doesn't provide a very significant moat, and they're trying to become more like system…”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 50:24 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 positive
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Filevine maintains 95% gross retention and 130% net dollar retention
“Has high gross margins and 95% retention. Like the GRR is incredible. NDR is 130%.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 51:43 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Filevine reached $200M+ revenue and a $3B valuation
“You've just raised like four hundred million dollars at a three billion dollar valuation. You're doing well over two hundred million in revenue.”
Pablo Srugo Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 2:22 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
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Filevine won 80% to 90% of head-to-head deals against Litify
“Over the course of the next, I don't know, three, four years, they were in every major deal against us, and I think our win rate was something like eight to nine out of 10.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 40:18 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rival Litify sold to PE for a small amount and stopped competing
“They sold for a pretty small amount of money to a private equity group, and the company's still around today, and, ah, you know, not trying to be negative about them, but we don't see them come up in deals anymore. I think it's pretty fair to say that we won t…”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 39:03 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026
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Filevine reached nearly $1M in revenue before raising a seed round
“The business at that point, you know, was approaching a million dollars in revenue, right?”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 26:32 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 positive
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Government agencies are one of Filevine's fastest-growing revenue sectors
“And to this day, government is a major source of revenue for us. It's one of our biggest sectors and one of our fastest growing.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 45:47 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026
Disclosure
Filevine's SDR team works 100% on-site in the office daily
“Because we're most, we're mostly on in-person and the SDR team is a hundred percent onsite every day in the office.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 19:02 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026
Disclosure
Anderson spent hundreds of thousands of personal savings bootstrapping Filevine
“I'm sure I had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of my own money over the course of a couple of years, maybe two, three years.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 23:36 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Filevine closed only one customer during its first eight months
“I think we sold literally zero new customers. April, May, June, July, August. In September, I think we sold one, ah, and it was kind of a friend, but they bought. And then again, zero. October, November, December.”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 16:30 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
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