Neal O'Grady 🍉

Demand Curve

Demand Curve (YC S19) creates courses, content, and events to teach founders and marketers how to grow companies. Our weekly newsletter goes out to over 97,000 founders and marketers.

Co-Founder

GrowthPair

We've partnered up to help startups hire top-tier growth talent that fits into their budget.

Advisor

Bell Curve

Bell Curve is a paid marketing agency explicitly built for startups. 

We've worked with companies like Invoice2Go, Pilot, Segment, Microsoft, Framer, Perfect Keto, Feedly, Stacker, Techcrunch, 1build, and Ancestry.

UNIGNORABLE

People wanna buy from people—not faceless brands. Un-ignorable is a 4-week group challenge designed to help you build an audience of future buyers.

Founder + Instructor

Segment

Demand Curve and Segment had a deep partnership. We collaborated on projects where our intersection of growth and tracking expertise can help companies grow revenue.

Growth Advisor

Webflow, Inc.

- Ideated blog post topics on topics most relevant and interesting to web designers 
- Produced high-quality blog posts each week that were engaging, educational, and got people excited about web design and Webflow 
- Sourced images and supplementary material and references - Work with the founders, CMO, designer, and editor

Copywriter/Content Marketer

Lighthouse Labs

The job of a TA at a early-stage web development bootcamp was 3 main things:

1. Developing curriculum.
2. Helping students with their coding challenges.
3. Providing emotional support to extremely stressed students wondering if they've made a horrible decision dropping $10k on a career change.

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I'm 34 years old. I've never had a full-time job.

Not once.

No, I did not grow up rich without needing to.

My dad passed when I was 13, my mom made $26,000 CAD, and he left her with an invalid life insurance policy. He had changed it to void unless he was 65 years old or older

He did that 2 days before local laws changed where your spouse needed to approve life insurance policy changes. 

He also left her with tons of debt on credit cards she didn't know about.

So she was forced to file for bankruptcy.

We were real poor.

I managed to go to university only because she moved to Vancouver with me.

And I paid for it by aggressively applying for scholarships. 75% of it was covered.

Yet, I've never used that degree.

Since then I've:

- Taught myself programming
- Worked as a freelance developer
- Worked as a freelance copywriter
- Lived out of a backpack for 3.5 years as a digital nomad
- Started two 7-figure revenue businesses in the marketing industry

At no point was I hungry, broke, or homeless.

People think that forging your own path is risky.

What I think is risky is taking out a mortgage based on a full-time job that can be taken away from you at any moment

As a freelancer, you have numerous income streams—losing one isn't existential.

As a business owner, your job can't be taken from you. You make more if you find a way to provide more value to people at scale.

This is why I've dedicated my life to helping people start, build, and grow companies. 

My ads agency, Bell Curve (www.bellcurve.com), helps startups grow through ads—the most scalable channel there is.

Demand Curve (www.demandcurve.com) teaches founders and marketers to grow their companies and passion projects. We were accepted into Y Combinator's summer of 2019 batch.

My goal is to make entrepreneurship easier and more approachable. Because we all benefit when we each build the future we want.

Demand Curve (YC S19) creates courses, content, and events to teach founders and marketers how to grow companies. Our weekly newsletter goes out to over 60,000 founders and marketers.

Inge von Aulock

Penfriend

Generate high quality, search optimised articles in minutes, based on a content strategy that’s delivered £24.6M in revenue.

Penfriend is an AI article writing tool built with an SEO Content Strategist with 10+ years experience and a Prompt Engineer who's spent 500+ hours refining high quality, article writing prompts.

Penfriend articles are based on a proven, search optimised content strategy that’s delivers:

* High quality articles in minutes, not weeks
* A dedicated in-house writer that never sleeps
* Consistent, reliable, high quality articles at scale

It’s a step by step article writing system that doesn’t need you to know how to prompt.

Founder // Chief Operating Officer

Hire and Fire your Kids 🇨🇦

Chief Executive Officer

InvestedMom

Personal Finance for wealth building. Living unrestricted.

Chief Wealth Builder & Editor in Chief

Microplastics Uncovered

Advisor | Editor in Chief, Environmental Sustainability

Tesla

Delivery Operations
Vehicle logistics and storage (carriers, port, storage solutions)
Store operations
New Store openings, recent openings incl. Surrey, Langley, Richmond, Edmonton 
Registration, titling, government incentive programs (Federal and provincial)
Market development

Operations | Canada West

Sales & Delivery Manager | Canada West

Store Manager & Trainer | Vancouver

Store Manager | West Vancouver

Laudem Deo

Laudem Deo is a South African luxury designer fashion label. As the Director of Sales and Marketing, I create and execute sales and marketing strategies that support global brand growth into North America, as well as Europe.

Director, Global Sales and Marketing

Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics North America

The North American Retail Support role is a senior management position that involves leading, developing, supporting, and elevating my teams' skill-sets to constantly improve the LUSH brand in the Western region of North America, including BC, AB, AK, HI, WA, OR, MT, WY, ID, UT, NV, CA, NM, CO, & AZ.

Regional Manager | North American Retail Support | West

Transition Support Manager | North American Retail Support 

Multi-unit Retail Manager

MAC Cosmetics

Manager, Retail Operations

Professional Make-Up

Regional Director

Infinity Footware & Accessories

Business Owner

Building Penfriend in Public

My journey to the tech space has been quite the adventure! I spent years climbing the corporate ladder, eventually working at Tesla where I managed billion-dollar revenue recognition and led teams of over 100 people. Even though Tesla had 70,000 employees, it still operated like a startup. Resources were tight, so I had to be incredibly creative about solving dire problems daily.

My transition to tech leadership evolved through several roles. I co-founded Penfriend, an AI content creation tool that came from my frustration with managing content operations. That experience taught me a lot about growing and scaling in the tech world – speed over accuracy, moving fast is really, really important.

In June 2023, I took on a new challenge as CEO of Hire and Fire your Kids (HFK), a gamified parenting app that helps families manage chores. Though I didn't found HFK, joining as CEO has been an exciting opportunity to apply my operational expertise to grow an existing product. Since coming aboard, I've focused intensively on product development, making the app more user-friendly, upgrading the technology, and implementing comprehensive digital marketing strategies.

We've completely migrated and redesigned the website, launched a content-rich blog, implemented proper SEO practices, and built out email marketing and social media channels. These efforts align perfectly with my background in content operations and understanding what drives real business results online.

As a non-technical CEO, I bring a unique perspective to leading tech products. I understand the user experience challenges and business growth requirements while partnering with technical teams to make our vision reality. My corporate background combined with entrepreneurial experience gives me a balanced approach to scaling HFK and reaching more families who can benefit from our platform.

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