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.

Cheraine & Co

https://thejob.club
https://portfolio.careers  
https://perimenopause.health
https://elroy.com.au
https://cheraine.co

Founder

Staffroom

Using no-code I built a tech platform of ID-verified & criminal-checked educators across 119 countries, directly connecting educators with recruiters, reducing hiring time and recruitment costs. I grew the user base to 8,000+, a Facebook group to 15,000+ with 80% MAU retention, and my LinkedIn network to 34,000+.

Launched in Bali and raised USD 100K Angel Investment. Relocated to Singapore and was selected for the Amazon AWS EdTech Accelerator Asia Pacific. Ultimately the business closed as it was not able to find PMF. Learned a lot!

Founder 

Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia

I teach undergrad International Business and high school IBDP, IGCSE, A-Level & VCE Business Management and Economics, MYP I&S and Careers Education in:

HCMC, Vietnam (Western Sydney University, Renaissance International School Saigon)

Bali, Indonesia (Universitas Ciputra, Sekolah Ciputra, Regents School Bali)

Melbourne, Australia (RMIT University, Wesley College, Albert Park College)

University Lecturer ⏐ Business, Economics, I&S Teacher ⏐ Careers Advisor

Boutique & Global MNCs

Founded Your New Life - Online sponsored job platform in Australia for skilled migrants
Closed (forced to close after government visa changes)

Founder ⏐ 360' Technical Recruiter (In-House & Agency - IT, Mining, Engineering)

Boutique & National Real Estate Agencies

Founded Habitat Property - Real Estate agency donating 20% of commissions to home building in Cambodia & Nepal. Closed (forced to close after 2011 QLD floods)

Founder ⏐ Principal & Licensee ⏐ Real Estate Sales Agent

Founder of Staffroom, the global professional network for teachers [www]staffroom.school

You're qualified. You're experienced. But you're not getting interviews.

The worst part? You don't know why.

Is it your resume? Your experience? Are you too expensive? Not senior enough? The silence is deafening.

Here's the truth: It's not you. It's that your resume is invisible.

98% of resumes never make it past the ATS. The ones that do get 6 seconds. If you don't nail both, you're screaming into the void.

I'm Cheraine Escott. Career Advisor, MBA, former recruiter, Jobclub founder.

I've sat on the hiring side and reviewed thousands of resumes. I know exactly what makes hiring managers stop scrolling.

Here's what changes:

Before: 50+ applications, zero responses, wondering what's wrong with you
After: Interview requests within 12 days, choosing between offers

I don't just rewrite bullet points. I reposition how hiring managers see you: from "another applicant" to "exactly who we've been looking for."

Most people have tried ChatGPT, free templates, and DIY rewrites. What they're missing is strategic positioning.

But landing a job only solves the problem temporarily.

One redundancy. One toxic manager. One restructure. And you're back here, scrambling again.

That's why I built Portfolio Careers.

Not to help you quit your job. But to give you options so you're never desperate again.

Imagine instead:

→ Income flowing from 4 sources (not just one employer)
→ Freedom to say no to toxic roles
→ Working from anywhere (I'm in Kyoto since August, was in Ho Chi Minh and Bali before that)

I teach you how to build 4 income streams in 90 days. No quitting your job. No massive audience required. Build while you earn. Launch when you're ready.

Ready to stop feeling powerless?

👉 Job searching? thejob.club
👉 Want income streams? portfolio.careers
💚 Every Jobclub purchase funds a free resume for someone in a developing country
🇯🇵 Currently based in Kyoto, Japan

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