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.

Frame

At Frame Properties, we build homes with heart and soul. Our homes are crafted to stand the test of time and enrich the lives of our homeowners and communities. Every detail, from the landscaping to the architecture, is designed to inspire curiosity and conversation. We believe a home should feel welcoming and contribute to something greater, paving the way for a better future. Welcome home.

Partner

The Growth Guide

The Growth Guide Newsletter (25,000 readers) 
The Growth Guide Podcast (220,000 downloads)

Conversations with authors, subject matter experts and millionaire mentors to help you: 

• Live Better 
• Achieve More 
• Be Financially Free

Podcast Host and Creator

MOSAIC Homes

Chief Financial Officer

Vice President of Finance

Urban Development Institute, Pacific Region

U40 Committee Member

Ledingham McAllister

Director of Finance and Administration

Wesgroup Properties and Wesgroup Capital

Wesgroup Properties and Wesgroup Capital - Director of Finance and Administration
 
Responsilities include:
 
Oversight of the accounting and finance division, including talent assessment, hiring, training, mentoring and coaching in excess of 10+ colleagues.
 
Financial reporting, cash modeling and forecasting, and treasury management for Wesgroup Capital, Wesgroup Properties development division, Wesgroup Properties asset management
 division, as well as private lending and equity investments. 

Oversight of Wesgroup’s information technology, including system architecture, users hardware and software, system analysis and selection, and IT policies and procedures.
 
Coordinating and managing Wesgroup’s insurance requirements across entities, divisions, and special events.
 
Specific highlights include:
 
Increased automation for Wesgroup Capital’s Net Asset Value calculations, reducing process time from 45+ days to less than 5 days.
 
Increased automation of daily and three year cash flow models, significantly reducing preparation time, as well as improving the accuracy of the information, which facilitated better decision making.
 
Introduction and creation of a Group consolidated financial statement, and a three year consolidated forecast with key debt and financing features, including forecast debt by category (land, construction, asset management) and financial institution.
 
Creation of formalized reporting and operating processes and procedures across multiple divisions, including senior management key performance indicators.
 
Significant reduction in audit costs, in excess of 50% for certain files, by working closely with our auditors, and increasing the quality of the audit packages and draft financial statements.
 
Responsible for leading the creation and implementation of a CA Training Office (CATO), designed to attract, train and retain highly talented individuals out of University, including marketing and promotion.

Director of Finance and Administration and Chief Compliance Officer

KPMG Canada

Provided audit and advisory services to privately owned businesses with a primary focus on
the manufacturing and high technology sectors, as well as not-for-profit organizations.

Responsibilities included:

Overseeing all aspects of the engagements from planning to completion, including scheduling, planning, client coordination, team monitoring and mentorship, managing the file review/completion and directly reporting to the Partner and Client.

Improving engagement recoveries and engagement quality through effective staff scheduling, planning, and client coordination.

While at KPMG, I also gained significant experience with regards to recruiting, training, evaluating, mentoring and managing people, in role as a “People Leader” in the office, with oversight and HR responsibilities for all staff below management.

Senior Manager

Sauder Industries

Managed the overall production of a facility with annual sales in excess of $10 million, and improved its financial and operational performance by focusing on human resources, machine automation and upgrading, as well as quality control.

Responsibilities and highlights included:

Preparation of the annual budget and analysis of monthly operational budget to actual variances, costs as a percentage of sales, and key performance indicators.

Overseeing strategic initiatives to ensure sustained and aggressive growth of the business by decreasing customer complaints through the introduction and improvement of quality control processes and fostering a customer-centric mentality; increasing production and staff utilization through improved scheduling; purchase of modernized equipment; and, upgrading of people to obtain “A” players.

Implementing a new production scheduling system (Excel to Access), which significantly reduced
scheduling times and increased efficiencies.

Oversight of all aspects of human resources, including hiring, training, evaluations, and the payroll process for 50 to 60 employees, depending on production capacities at any specific time.

Operations  Manager - Toronto, Ontario

KPMG Audit

KPMG Vancouver - Financial Institutions and Real Estate, and 
KPMG Bermuda - Alternative Investment and Banking Practice.

Senior Accountant

I simplify psychology, success and money by sharing advice from mentors, expert authors and my life. CFO | Creator | Investor| Entrepreneur

Clint Murphy is obsessed with Growth: Personal, professional and financial. 

After a 25-year career, including 8+ years at KPMG and 8+ years at a leading Vancouver Real Estate Development Firm, Clint started his own Real Estate Development Company with three great partners - Frame Properties. 

Daily, he creates content that reaches over a million people worldwide across Twitter (@IamClintMurphy), LinkedIn, Instagram and his Podcast and Newsletter - The Growth Guide. 
 
He is the host of the Growth Guide Podcast, where he talks to authors, subject matter experts and millionaire mentors to understand how successful people approach personal growth, Get Sh!t Done and become financially free.   
 
Each week, he shares the Growth Guide Newsletter which provides actionable ideas to help you: 

• Live Better 
• Achieve More  
• Be Financially Free 

Clint is a lifelong learner and growth fanatic who wants to help 1 billion people live better, achieve more and become financially free.

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