Galicia Gordon on Leading Learners Blog

Mar 26, 2022

Why I Never Post Financial/Work/Company/School Accomplishments To Social Media

Recently, my friends and I have noticed something. Social media is loud, distracting, and not a guarantee that you are doing something meaningful in life. Within one year of no posting and limiting use to 30 minutes to 2 hours at absolute maximum, I carved out the next 10 years of my life.

No, by loud and noisy, I am not speaking about the overwhelming amount of posts. I mean you can quite literally scroll and within 60 seconds find people yelling at your face.

I have said before that my passion hobby is supporting bootstrapped and quiet companies. The reason being, nobody expects anything. I can show everyone a lineup of 10 software companies, and the ones you think are not making as much money, make more than all combined.

I am currently supporting one in specific with zero social media presence, tens of thousands of active users, and nearly $2M in annual reoccurring revenue. Love the tool. Love the people. Love the office. Every month, something new happens and they update me, but nobody knows. That is why I love them. 

You do not need a personal social media following to run a successful company. You do not need to share awards and affiliations to be deemed successful. You do not need to. The accelerator program leaders, financial leaders, and social-media obsessed worldwide who read this may go mad on me, but I said what I said. 

When you are running a startup, company, product, or software project, people are very watchful. Which is why I provide them nothing at all. Never have I shared anything. Never have I shared how much money was made or raised. Never do I do large, gregarious updates on the company or myself. Never do I reveal awards for academic or work life. Never do I tell people I got something. I probably never will. 

I think my motto for this year is "nobody needs to know." I love sitting and finishing off work silently. It is the best way for me to get things done. 

Because I put in the work already so young, I now can sit back and live out the “dream.”

That being, having money to treat your friends out for food, purchase whatever you want without covering your mouth and biting your lip harder than when you look at Costco ice cream, get your friends a paid internship at your company for work experience, and taking just the right amount of photo clicks of our lives to cause eye damage.

The moment I simmered down on social media was when I achieved the only lacking thing in my life. I had everything ⏤ face card on check, amazing and lean runner's legs to go places, humour beyond belief, wonderful friends, more job experience than I should for my age, and doses of workaholism that could kill.

I was missing financial independence. As a woman. In Canada. At the brink of adulthood. At 16. Two years ago.

Before the start of 2020 year, nobody could pay me enough money to know how to use a savings account. I mean, what the heck is interest other than the lack of it that I possess for men? At least, I shall say, I found some banks that started at below 1% and could understand me there. Love you, *insert bank name I do not want to name because I still want my company office.*

I take myself to the bank, and meet a nice Iranian woman. I read the pamphlets and boom... Just like that, I am a certified professional accountant in Vancouver, British-Columbia, Canada. One of the busiest cities for business in Canada, let alone the world. Ms. Gordon shall do. For now.

We like to keep it real humble at banks. And just in case any of you think I am joking, I mean it. I am dead serious. This white man with beaming blonde hair next to me was pulling hundreds like toilet paper. Like an act of benevolent volunteerism for children with broken homes. Please, enlighten me.

The reason why we may look for validation or reassurance is for one reason: we believe we are missing something. You are not missing anything.