Neal O'Grady 🍉

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I have an extremely strange mix of skills/experience:

- Mechanical engineer
- Full-stack developer
- Serial entrepreneur ($25M+ in total revenue)
- Content creator/marketer (100k+ newsletter subs and millions of page views)
- Growth marketer (ran marketing companies for 9 years)
- Crypto nerd (20k+ defi transactions)

Which is why I run marketing at a scrappy and highly technical crypto company—I can do a bit of everything.

Co-Founder

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In 2026, you can:

- Bet on how many tweets Elon posts this month
- Bet on whether Jesus Christ will return in 2026
- Bet on which country the US strikes next

It's honestly a bit absurd 😅 

With memecoins, you can bet on the cultural relevance of ideas and moments.

And now with Zora, you can mint a token on anything you think will trend — a tweet, a news event, a vibe — and turn it into a market.

Yes, even the topic of the day on LinkedIn.

We've been talking for a while about the Attention Economy and how creators like Mr. Beast have learned to capitalize on it, but now we, the social media-addicted consumers, can capitalize on it as well.

So, although this job post is a joke, trading culturally relevant content is already how some people earn their living.

To you, this may be a dystopian future, but sports betting is surging among Gen Z. 

$1.3B was transacted on prediction markets during the Super Bowl alone.

The appetite to put money where your opinion is isn't going away — it's expanding into every corner of culture.

Whether you think that's exciting or terrifying, the infrastructure is being built right now. Which is why Codex Data Inc is excited to power Zora's token data.

"Attention Economist" might be a joke today. But what else are we going to do when AGI comes? 😅

Neal O'Grady

Head of Marketing at Codex.io & Defined.fi

Helping Agency Owners & B2B Founders close 2-10 clients on Linkedin in the next 180 days (Or You Don't Pay).

I help founders turn Linkedin into a consistent lead-gen channel. 2M+ b2b revenue generated, case studies attached below.

Naim Ahmed

One of my clients is getting the most engagement he's ever gotten on Linkedin.

The funny thing is...

11k impressions is actually low when you compare it to 100k+ impressions screenshots gurus share.

However, there is a BIG difference here.

My clients impressions are HIGH QUALITY views from HIGH QUALITY prospects.

8 and 9 figure eCom founders are seeing his posts regularly and engaging.

He's posting niche insights about eCom that make his expertise undeniable.

He's NOT going viral with stories about his cat.

He's NOT spamming giveaways every day.

He's building real authority.

That's why he's winning.

Linkedin outbound tip:

If you're sending automated outreach, your goal is NOT to trick people into thinking you sent it manually.

Your goal is to make the message/offer so good that they DON'T CARE if it's automated or not.

Prospects respond because they WANT that you have.

Offer > Fake Personalisation.

Day 1 on Linkedin? Here’s what I’d focus on:

1. Study competitors & observe what’s working
2. Send some connections to your ICP
3. Start conversations daily 5 with ICP & 2 with peers

No engagement pods. No 100 comments a day. No 2 posts a day.

Study what content performs and take notes.

Think about how you could things better/differently.

Then, connect with a few prospects and shoot some DMs.

Get used to reaching out to decision makers via chat.

Network with creators and build a relationship or two.

This'll give you a foundation, now you can start posting and sky is your limit.

"Don't post on Linkedin on Sunday"... is dumb advice.

As I've been prospecting wealthier buyers...

I've realised they are SUPER busy during the week.

But, evenings and weekends they a have a lil more time.

Many of them use Sunday to prepare for the week ahead.

They scroll more on Linkedin that day.

Respond to some emails, DMs that are less urgent.

Make the most of this.

Don't assume Linkedin is dead on Sundays.

I'd argue it's very much alive and well, ESPECIALLY if your buyers are busy c-suite decision makers.

Post as normal, shoot your shot in the DMs as normal.

You'll book way more meetings.

Employee Generated Content is the BIG opportunity in 2026.

I’ve been working with orgs on this since late 2024 and it’s only getting bigger.

Just imagine you’re able to build multiple personal brands across your whole executive team.

. CEO generating thousands of impressions.
. CMO/CSO generating thousands of impressions.
. VP Marketing generating thousands of impressions.

All building influence and promoting the company.

. CEO shares strategies & the journey.
. CMO shares marketing behind-the-scenes.
. Sales director talks sales process optimisation.

Collectively you can easily break 50-100k impressions a week.

On the backend you can monetize in multiple ways...

For example, each c-suite exec could promote a singular bi-monthly webinar and all content from Linkedin could be pushed here.

Imagine the sheer number of prospects you could attract.

The amount of pipeline you could drive.

The amount of demos you’d book.

All for free.

This is the future.

What do you call founders that outsource all their outbound to AI-SDRs?

Poor.

Obviously this is a joke, but it’s rooted in reality.

A lot of leaders feel like the ENTIRE sales process needs be automated IMMEDIATELY.

Which means they end up with AI-Agents sending bad outreach at scale.

Basically a mass public humiliation ritual.

I’m a big believer in putting in a little work to figure out a system that works THEN automate parts of the process.

All while maintaining human touch-points, so you can stand out.

As the world becomes more obsessed with automating everything with AI-agents.

It’s easier than ever to stand out by showing up as a REAL human that's willing to do the unscalable.

Had a chat with a Linkedin creator with 13,000 followers and 100s of likes on his posts...

We went back & forth in the DMs and I asked him: "how many calls you booking for your agency on Linkedin?"

His answer: 0

"How much revenue generated from your content?"

His answer: 0

All his likes were from peers, pods and other marketers.

He had no systems to turn his followers into calls.

A few days later I had a catch up with an old client

He has way less followers, way less likes.

He told me he’d made $15k that week, alone.

Getting likes & getting paid are 2 COMPLETELY different skill-sets.

P.S. Most of my clients like Umair, Noah, Nicolas and many more ALL have audiences on the smaller side but book calls consistently. Living proof it’s not your follower count holding you back. It’s your sales system.

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