Filev: Wrike would not have survived if VC-backed from day one
Andrew Filev · He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder · PMF Show · Aug 25, 2025 · at 2:20
Andrew Filev, founder of Wrike, reflects on the early days of founding the project management software company in 2006.
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“Cause I think if we were venture business from day one, we would not survive that long haul.”
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