How did you prioritize yourself or your team this week?

Happy Friday founders and friends!

Happy Friday, founders and friends!

As we wrap up the week, we have a question to ask- how did you prioritize yourself, or your team this week?

Bloom Managing Partner, Bart Macdonald, recently hosted serial SaaS entrepreneur Adii Pienaar on the full bloom podcast to talk about the new measure of success for founders. Adii goes deep about the importance of founders separating themselves from the successes & failures of business- and introduces his new measure of success.

After more than 12 years of chasing success, Adii is reflecting on his journey as a 3x founder and CEO. Now, Adii his sharing new measure of success- life profitability. Hear Adii reflect on his experience launching products, growing teams and funding ventures- sharing what he would do differently as a first-time founder.

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Favorites from the Ecosystem

This episode is a must-listen for founders seeking more than just financial success 🔥

bloom venture partners @bloomvp_

“what is the best thing I can do for myself and for my team in this moment?” @adii is thinking about founder-success differently👇

We like to call this a Series-P

Orchid Bertelsen @OrchidBertelsen

Large funding rounds are cool and all but have you tried having a profitable business?

1. Build the future

2. Listen to your customers

3. Repeat

Aaron Levie @levie

The best part of building software is the job is never done. Since starting Box, I don’t think I’ve ever left a customer conversation where this isn’t something new left to go do. Build the future, listen to your customers, repeat.

At Bloom, we buy + build + invest in those software businesses…

Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki

People don’t buy software, they buy solutions to problems.

…and we do it around the world 🌏

Jay Vasantharajah @jayvasdigital

With @bloomvp_'s global mandate, we get the privilege of speaking with founders from a ton of different countries. The democratization/access to entrepreneurship is truly astounding and something I cannot appreciate enough.

Bloom Port Co Spotlight

Congrats to the Secure team! Secure recently unveiled their stealth co-founder Suze Orman 👏

Check out the full story here.

SecureSave @SecureSave1

We have been holding back on an awesome part of our story at Secure. Bassam Saliba and I are thrilled to introduce our other, top secret Co-Founder, @SuzeOrmanShow Check out the full story...

securesave.comIntroducing our secret weapon and co-founder – Suze Orman – Secure, Inc

Lula launched their update website and market positioning. Check out what they’ve been up to here.

Lula @lula_____

We’ve come a long way since we began as a carsharing app for college students. Today, we launched our new site and are excited to share what we’ve been up to. So many thanks to all those that have supported us on this journey! This is only the beginning…

End Note

Thanks for joining us for another edition of the weekly bloom. At Bloom Venture Partners we buy, build + invest in SaaS.

We’re excited to continue backing remarkable teams on their quest of changing the way we work, live + create.

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