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.

Soundarya Balasubramani

Course Creator

Founder of unshackled.club | O-1 Visa Recipient | 2x Author of "Unshackled" & "Admitted" | Emergent Ventures Scholar | Ex-PM @ Salesforce

Hello hello :)
I’m Soundarya a.k.a Pooja a.k.a SB (pick your favorite!)

I've spent 8.5 years in America as an immigrant, pretty much wearing every hat possible: student, corporate employee, part-time employee, solo founder, author, course creator and community-builder. 

Every role required me to take risks and leave behind everything I've known to be familiar. I did this not without fear, but ✨ despite ✨ feeling it. If that resonates, welcome! 


✍️ I write about:
→ How to navigate U.S. immigration as a high-skilled professional
→ How to transition from corporate 9-5 to solopreneurship 24x7 🙃
→ How to grow your venture 0-1 (by sharing case studies of successful founders)
→ How to build leverage through storytelling, writing, and public speaking


🔮 Previously:
→ Worked at Salesforce as a Product Manager for 2.5 years before quitting when I was 25.
→ Published 2 books, including Admitted and Unshackled, read by 10,000+. Finishing my third now (1000 Days of Love).
→ Built one of the largest newsletters (40,000+ subs) and hosted the largest summit (1000+ attendees) for tech immigrants in America through my second book, Unshackled.
→ Hosted a free, country-wide book tour to educate 2000+ intl. students on immigration & career growth. 
→ Consulted startups & entrepreneurs on community-building, publishing, online growth, and immigration.


If you’re a tech immigrant, aspiring solopreneur, or just someone motivated to take the unconventional path... you’ll find something useful here ✨ 

Thanks for reading, friend.

~ SB



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