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AI Engineering PodcastSpecs, Tests, and Self‑Verification: The Playbook for Agentic Engineering TeamsSummaryIn this episode Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of ZenCoder, takes a deep dive into the system design, workflows, and organizational changes behind building agentic coding systems. He traces the evolution from autocomplete to truly agentic models, discusses why context engineering and verification are the real unlocks for reliability, and outlines a pragmatic path from “vibe coding” to AI‑first engineering. Andrew shares ZenCoder’s internal playbook: PRD and tech spec co‑creation with AI, human‑in‑the‑loop gates, test‑driven development, and emerging BDD-style acceptance testing. He explores multi-repo context, cross-service reasoning, and how AI reshapes team communication...
2025-10-191h 06
The Information's TITVClaude Sonnet 4.5 Review, AWS Director on AI Agents, Vercel’s $9B Valuation | Sep 30, 2025Vercel's COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the company's $300M series F funding round and its aspirations to become the "AWS of AI." We also talk with Warp's Zach Lloyd and Zencoder's Andrew Filev about their first reactions to the new Claude Sonnet 4.5 model. The Information's Theo Wayt breaks down the latest xAI org chart shake-ups, and we also get into AI agents with AWS's Director of Technology, Shaown Nandi.Articles discussed on this episode:https://www.theinformation.com/articles/people-running-elon-musks-xaiTITV airs on YouTube...
2025-09-3039 min
A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for FoundersHe Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & ZencoderAndrew bootstrapped Wrike and grew it from 0 to a $2.2B exit by doing the exact opposite of what every startup book tells you. No pivots. No talking to customers before launch. No narrow niche. Just 17 years of relentless focus on one problem while everyone else was pivoting every 18 months. In this episode, he breaks down exactly why bootstrapping saved his company (and why VC would have killed it), why he ignored customer development and just built in a bunker, and how manning the support phones himself became his secret product development weapon. Now building Zencoder (AI...
2025-08-251h 08
Scaling DevToolsAndrew Filev, founder of Zencoder: AI Software Engineering agentsAndrew Filev is the founder of Zencoder. Zencoder is building AI coding agents. In this episode, we explore the evolution from simple code completion AI to more sophisticated software engineering agents. While tools like GitHub Copilot revolutionized code suggestions, the next frontier involves AI agents that can handle complex engineering tasks and collaborate with each other through emerging protocols.The discussion dives into agent-to-agent protocols, which enable AI systems to work together autonomously on software development tasks. This advancement suggests a future where AI agents could manage entire development workflows, from requirements gathering to testing...
2025-07-0850 min
The Reasoning ShowDeveloper Assistance with Coding Co-PilotsAndrew Filev (@andrewsthoughts, Founder @zencoderai) talks about the state and future of developer coding co-pilots.SHOW: 901SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #901 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:ZenCoder websiteTopic 1...
2025-02-2630 min
Wise Decision Maker Show#137: Trust Is Key for Productivity of Hybrid Workers: Andrew Filev of WrikeIn this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky speaks to Andrew Filev, CEO of Wrike, about why trust is the key for productivity of hybrid workers.You can learn about Wrike at https://www.wrike.com📧 Make sure to register for the FREE Wise Decision Maker Course and get a FREE copy of the "Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace" as part of the first course module https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/subscribe/📖 Check out Dr. Gleb Tsipursky's latest books:"Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchm...
2023-06-3016 min
Inevitable: The Future of WorkEnabling Technology Week, Episode 2: Keeping the power of workflow with the citizen Andrew Filevv on Linkedin
2023-05-0441 min
Future Of Work PodcastAndrew Filev Founder Of Wrike | Reclaiming Lost Productivity & Improving Workplace CultureAndrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a leading collaborative work management platform. He started the company in 2006 to help people and companies work more productively and be more time and cost-efficient.
Andrew Filev was running a successful micro-multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects. Despite this, it was challenging to keep up with the pace of the workload. This inspired him to create a new software category, which is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. The pandemic has caused a drastic shift to remote working and has highlighted th...
2023-04-0230 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 312: Wrike CEO Andrew Filev on 5 Do's and Don'ts From My Bootstrapping DaysStarting a company can be daunting, exhausting, and expensive, but with the right focus and idea - extremely rewarding; take it from Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO of Wrike. In this session, he will outline the do's and don'ts that he learned bootstrapping Wrike. Where it makes sense to invest your precious resources when to outsource, and how to save yourself money without cutting corners. This podcast is an excerpt from Andrew's session at SaaStr Europa 2019. You can find the full video and transcript on our blog. This episode is sponsored by Owl Labs.
2020-02-2727 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 312: Wrike CEO Andrew Filev on 5 Do's and Don'ts From My Bootstrapping DaysStarting a company can be daunting, exhausting, and expensive, but with the right focus and idea - extremely rewarding; take it from Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO of Wrike. In this session, he will outline the do's and dont's that he learned bootstrapping Wrike. Where it makes sense to invest your precious resources when to outsource, and how to save yourself money without cutting corners. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloud.substack.com
2020-02-2727 min
The Visible Expert PodcastAndrew Filev - Founder & CEO of WrikeAndrew created the software category of collaborative work management after founding Wrike in 2006. The company has over 20,000 customers and more than 2 million users in over 100 countries. On the show, Andrew talks about how he became a productivity freak, bootstrapping his own company, what it takes to build a motivated team, and much more. Learn more about Wrike: https://www.wrike.com/ @wrike @andrewsthoughts
2019-11-0431 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 235: Scaling To 3,000+ Customers Without A Single Sales Rep, The Most Important Trait To Look For In Your First Sales Hire & How To Make Your Customers Your Best Investors with Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO @ WrikeAndrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. Before this transaction, Andrew had raised over $45m in funding from the likes of Rory @ Scale and Bain Capital Ventures just to name a few. As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate.
2019-05-2029 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 235: Scaling To 3,000+ Customers Without A Single Sales Rep, The Most Important Trait To Look For In Your First Sales Hire & How To Make Your Customers Your Best Investors with Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO @ WrikeAndrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. Before this transaction, Andrew had raised over $45m in funding from the likes of Rory @ Scale and Bain Capital Ventures just to name a few. As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate.
2019-05-2029 min
The AI in Business PodcastStart with a Problem: How Fast-Growing Startups Can Leverage Machine LearningLearning about the research behind machine learning is always fun, but so is learning about the real-world applications. In today's episode, we're joined by the CEO and founder of Wrike, Andrew Filev. Filev speak about where Wrike is currently applying machine learning and AI in their fast-growing, data-driven company. He shares his insights as to why he thinks marketing might be the most ripe for disruption by AI, and also discusses how most companies can prepare to take advantage of machine learning in any industry.
2016-08-0621 min
The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS FoundersSelf-Serve SaaS: How Wrike Reached 6,000 CustomersNo sales team. No personal network. Strangers found it, tried it, paid for it. Andrew Filev deliberately avoided friends-and-family sales and let Wrike's self-serve SaaS model prove demand. A freemium SaaS approach and SaaS content marketing grew the platform to 6,000 paying customers across 50 countries.
Andrew shares how he merged project management and collaboration into one product, why his biggest mistake was not talking to customers enough, and how a self-serve SaaS approach landed 40+ Fortune 1000 accounts without an enterprise sales team.
Wrike raised over $11 million in funding. The product scales from 5-user teams to organizations with 1,000+...
2014-10-0750 min