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aron gelbard

T2 · manager / operator

Founded Bloom & Wild 13 years ago with goal of making flower gifting joyful; scaled to £50M revenue in 7 years on £25M raised; navigated COVID tripling, post-COVID contraction, and return to 20% YoY profitable growth; expanded into 8 European markets and non-flower gifting categories.

1 call·1 name·100% bull·last heard 7 months ago·Scaling Europe
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Bloom & Wild CEO sees 20% YoY growth driven by loyalty, viral acquisition, and gifting expansion

Core UK flower business gaining share via 1M+ member loyalty program and viral recipient-to-customer conversion; international expansion (especially Germany) growing faster than UK; non-flower gifting growing ~100% YoY with better customer feedback and lower perishability, addressing a market 10-15x larger than flowers alone.

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HIGHaron gelbard·Scaling Europe·7 months ago·Bloom & Wild has 20% YoY growth: Aron Gelbard, Co-founder and CEO· position
Bloom & Wild CEO sees 20% YoY growth driven by loyalty, viral acquisition, and gifting expansion
Core UK flower business gaining share via 1M+ member loyalty program and viral recipient-to-customer conversion; international expansion (especially Germany) growing faster than UK; non-flower gifting growing ~100% YoY with better customer feedback and lower perishability, addressing a market 10-15x larger than flowers alone.
"There have really been three drivers of that growth. The first one is that our core UK uh online flower gifting business is continuing to perform really strongly. We're gaining si…"
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Enterprise AI Adoptiontailwind
Bloom & Wild mandates AI usage across all functions, seeing customer service and creative gains
CEO requires every employee to use AI multiple times per month; AI handles significant percentage of customer queries with faster response times critical for next-day delivery business; AI enables new greetings card category with much larger SKU count; internal evangelist program drives adoption beyond cost savings to customer proposition improvement.
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E-commerce Business Modelstailwind
Letterbox delivery, viral loops, and loyalty drive capital-efficient flower gifting scale
Letterbox-fit packaging created structural cost and convenience advantage; 50% of new customers acquired virally via recipient experience; loyalty program with 1M+ members increases retention and frequency; acquisition strategy adds both markets (Netherlands, France) and supply chain capabilities (grower relationships, automated production).
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Private Marketsmixed
Profitability pivot after COVID boom proves resilient; IPO not near-term priority
Post-COVID reversion and cost inflation forced painful but necessary profitability focus; 3 years profitable at 20% YoY growth shows durable model; CEO prefers staying private to build scale in gifting and international markets before considering public markets, with no desire to sell.