Blossom Social

🥳 A very happy Diwali to everyone celebrating! Especially those in our rockstar dev team and our legendary CTO Kartik Bhutani!!! ❤️ Blossom Social would be nothing without you, and working with you these past 3 years has been nothing short of extraordinary! I hope you all have a well-deserved break filled with fun and how with your families and loved ones 😊

🥳 We just threw a BBQ for 50+ of the largest investing & personal finance creators in North America at FinCon... and it was EPIC! 📸 Photo on the right is our party last year when we hardly knew anyone and hadn't even launched yet in the US... 🤯 Photo on the left is from Friday night... wild what difference a year can make! 🇺🇸 Since launching in the US on Jan 1, we've grown to over 50,000 US members, with the US driving over 40% of our monthly growth... and a huge part of that success has been our incredible ambassador team! ✨ 😍 These folks have not only been instrumental to Blossom's growth, but they've also become some of my closest friends, and I feel so lucky and grateful to get to work and hang with this incredibly inspiring, ambitious, creative (and fun) group! 👀 Can't wait to see what's in store for next year!

This is surreal. This is the power of building a personal brand: Deciding to create a personal brand has been the most challenging, but rewarding venture that I’ve embarked on. • Posted my first video in May 2023 • Creating over 360 videos in 15 months • Generating over 30,000,000 views + over 100,000 followers across all platforms Because of this, at 21 years old I’ve been able to: • Meet and network with founders and incredible individuals • Grow multiple startups from the ground up • Speak at some amazing events • Educate and encourage thousands to take control of the personal finances • Learn invaluable skills from first hand experience in Marketing and Business that I can carry forward into any career • Give back to others and offer support to entrepreneurs Never could I have imagined that a few videos online would turn into this! Moving forward, I plan to carry this brand I’ve created into my future endeavours, wherever that may be. I have some exciting updates on a couple things I’ve been building in the background coming soon. So stay tuned! And thank you to everyone that’s supported me thus far!

Super late post, from July 18, 2024 Blossom Social Annual Social Event This is my second time joining Blossom Social event. Last year I saw Brandon Beavis’ and Joyee’s posts about Blossom in IG in the thick of tax season. I haphazardly downloaded Blossom app and learned how to use it because I’ve been wanting to learn DIY investing for a long time. When deciding on whether or not to attend Blossom social event, I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to understand any investing talk because I was a newbie, but I decided to go anyway. It was great! I learned new things and made new connections. 😊 It has been 2 years since I became a DIY investor and I’m proud to say that I have learned a few things - I have made some money and I have lost some as well. 😆 A few years ago, I asked a financial advisor on what return I should expect from the investment he managed for our family. He said 4%. Well, now that I learned DIY investing, I think it is possible to beat 4%, especially when I don’t pay myself any fees. 😊 Blossom app has helped me learn investing stuff by reading what others posts, by asking questions + receiving answers, and interacting with other fellow DIY investors. I can also see others’ real portfolio, that are connected to their brokerage accounts. 😮😁👍 You should check out Blossom app if you haven’t done so. Anyhow, back to the social event. I had a chance to meet a lot of people IRL. Shay, Tracy, Brandon, Annika Ng, Tim, Joyee, Adrian, Maxwell Nicholson, BD, Alan, Vanessa and many more. I even met a fellow Indonesian - Kevin. Plus, there was a bonus a swag bag for everyone! I have enjoyed learning about DIY investing and I enjoyed Blossom social events (twice now). 😊 Great job Blossom team! 👍🎊 #blossomsocial #canadianinvestors #investing #networking #canadiantax #cdntax #taxtips #moneycoach #taxprofessional #prudentmoneycoach

🤯 Google's new 'NotebookLM' is blowing my mind... 🎙️ I just used it to convert my newsletter '🐝 The Weekly Buzz' to a podcast in <5 minutes and it sounds wayyyy too real. The voices are so natural and conversational, it makes jokes, the insights are great, and it summarizes my writing in a fun, engaging way... 🤩 Exciting (and a bit scary 😰) to see the future unfold before our eyes! 💡 Check it out here and let me know what you think - https://lnkd.in/gitHSkpa Shout out 🚀Stephen from addy for putting this on my radar 👏

🎙️ We hosted our first Blossom livestream and had over 500 folks tune in on a Friday evening! 🤯 The Blossom community never ceases to amaze me! 🔥 It was a blast moderating a lively discussion (and sometimes debate 👀) about Dividends vs Growth, Stocks vs ETFs, Geographic Exposure, and more with Canada's largest investing content creators 😊 👏 Thanks Richard Coffin, Brandon Beavis, Marc Beavis, Adrian Bar, Bilaal Dhalech, and Joyee Yang for an awesome discussion and thanks to everyone who tuned in! 👏 Shout out Annika Ng for organizing! 👇 Check it out here if you're interested 😎 https://lnkd.in/gY3QH4BM

We had a great time closing the market yesterday with Blossom Social and a stacked lineup of partners

😍 We had such a blast closing the market last night with our incredible ETF partners and ambassadors to celebrate our new partnership with Cboe Canada to raise awareness about their new ETF listings!  👏 Big thanks to the amazing folks from BMO, Harvest ETFs, Global X, Vanguard, Purpose Investments, BlackRock, Fidelity, Mackenzie, CIBC, TD, RBC, Hamilton ETFs, and StoneX for coming out! 🔥Special shout out Rosie and the Cboe Canada team for being such awesome supporters of Blossom!

🤯 We just launched the ultimate chat experience for investors... 💬 When we set out to build DMs for Blossom, we had a choice: 🥱 Build a plain cookie-cutter chat feature like you'd find on the countless messaging apps crowding your phone... ...or completely reimagine the messaging experience with a tailor-made solution built specifically for investors 📈 👀 Can you guess which we chose? 🔥 Introducing the Blossom Investing Superchat - now live on the App Store and Google Play! To get access, make sure you update Blossom to the latest version! 🌟 With Blossom Investing Superchat, you can: - 📈 Tag stocks and charts directly in the chat - 💸 Show off your buys, sells, and daily portfolio performance - 🐝 Share custom Blossom stickers - 🔐 And stay safe from scams with our powerful scam detection 👏 Shout out to my incredible team for this huge release and to Gonzalo from Intuitive Labs for your hard work leading the design of this awesome new feature! 🕶 I can't wait for you all to try it out! Let me know what you think in the comments!👇 P.S. Check out this awesome 1-minute video for a sneak-peak of what makes Blossom Investing Superchat so special 😍

🤯 It was a WILD week in the stock market with Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple reporting earnings and the S&P having its worst day since 2022… 😥 If you were a bit overwhelmed by it all don’t worry, I got you covered 🫡 Here are the cliff notes (and no this isn't ChatGPT this is MaxGPT after 6 hours of research in a cafe 😅): Amazon ($AMZN) - 🛍️ Amazon stock plummeted 12%, with Price to Operating Cash Flow Falling to the Lowest Point in 14 Years - 📈 Net Income DOUBLED, crushing expectations by 23% - 🎯 Despite this, the stock got hit hard as Amazon’s revenue forecast for next quarter fell short of expectations Meta ($META) - 🔊 Meta up 4% with “Healthy Global Ad Demand” - 💰 Revenue passed $39B, a 22% increase from the previous year, beating analysts expectations - 💸 Net income has skyrocketed 73% compared to last year as Meta has reined in costs (particularly in the Metaverse division) Microsoft ($MSFT) - 🧑💻 Microsoft Down 5.4% After AI Revenues Disappoint - 😢 Microsoft was hit hard as its Azure cloud computing and AI-heavy intelligent cloud division unit came in below estimates - 💰 Microsoft (and the rest of big tech) has invested billions into AI infrastructure but, according to some, is “failing to convince Wall Street that AI is paying off.” Apple ($AAPL) - 🍎 Apple Up 1.2% Despite Declining iPhone Sales - 👴🏻 Warren Buffet / Berkshire Hathaway slashed his stake in Apple by nearly half but continues to hold Apple as his biggest holding - 📲 Despite this, the stock rose over anticipation of the launch of Apple’s AI software update later this fall 👇 Read even more detail in the Weekly Buzz 🐝 along with my breakdown of Nvidia, Intel, and the overall market!