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.

Harsh Thakkar

Qualtivate

Clients who have trusted our expertise:

- Rho Inc
- ICON PLC
- Immuneering
- G1 Therapeutics 
- Seres Therapeutics 
- and many more since 2022

Our why:

Help life sciences elevate their quality management and build innovative technologies to make data-driven decisions throughout the product development lifecycle.

4 ways we deliver value:

1. Quality Management & Compliance 
2. Computer Systems Lifecycle Management 
3. Data Governance & Integrity 
4. Custom App Development 

How we can help you:

- Auditing your software and quality systems.
- Prepping sites for GMP.
- Full management of your computer systems.
- Qualifying infrastructure and equipment.
- Training for FDA and regulatory audits.
- Oversight of all GxP QA activities.
- Building smart AI and no-code apps.
- Shifting from paper to digital QMS.
- Moving from validation to software assurance.
- Managing your external suppliers network.
- Crafting a solid data governance strategy.
- Building data-driven supply chains.

How to get in touch?

1) Word of mouth via our happy clients and business partners.

2) Or good old email and phone:

📞 Call us: +1-919-213-8737
📧 Email: hthakkar@qualtivate.com
🌐 Visit: www.qualtivate.com

CEO and Founder

Life Sciences 360

Life Sciences 360 is a podcast and YouTube channel that educates anyone on challenges, trends, and insights in the life-sciences industry. 

As the host, I interview subject-matter experts, CXOs, business leaders, and key life-science partners contributing to bringing new therapies to patients worldwide. 

I'm passionate about advancements in life sciences and technology and always eager to learn from guests— making the show both informative and useful for the audience.

Podcast Host and Producer

Cytokinetics

Associate Director Quality Assurance GxP Electronic Systems

Bristol Myers Squibb

Sr. Manager Quality Assurance- GxP Systems

Manager Quality Assurance GxP Systems

White Collar Technologies, Inc

Consulted for 
- Millennium Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Takeda)
- Biogen
- Myonex (formerly Myoderm)
- Merck
- Johnson & Johnson (led projects for JnJ Consumer, Janssen and Ethicon)

Senior Quality and CSV Consultant

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

Regulatory Affairs Specialist

Pfizer

QC Analyst

CEO @ Qualtivate- consultancy helping life sciences to elevate quality management maturity, ensure regulatory compliance, and deploy innovative technology solutions.

A few years ago, I noticed a recurring big hairy problem in the life sciences industry: 

(hint: it's not what you think!)

Companies drowning in data but starving for insights.

I saw teams spending countless hours sifting through spreadsheets, chasing down reports, and still missing critical information when it mattered most. 

Compliance felt like a burden rather than a built-in strength.

I knew there had to be a better way.

That's why I founded Qualtivate.

We started with a simple yet powerful idea: 
Integrate quality directly into everyday workflows and technology. 

No more patchwork solutions or endless manual processes. 

Just streamlined, intelligent systems that turn messy, unstructured data into clear, actionable insights.

Today, we've helped 15+ life science companies transform their approach to quality management. 

By automating workflows and connecting systems, we've not only reduced manual efforts by up to 65% (stats collected by QC lead from a top-25 biotech client) but also empowered organizations to make smarter, faster decisions with confidence.

Just imagine having all your critical data at your fingertips, processes that adapt and improve continuously, and a team that's freed up to focus on innovation rather than administration.

That's the future we're building at Qualtivate.

Are you ready to leave outdated practices behind and embrace a smarter approach to quality and compliance?

Let's make it happen together.

👉🏼 Connect with me or visit qualtivate.com to learn how we can elevate your quality management to the next level.

CEO and Founder– Qualtivate 

Qualtivate is a quality management and regulatory compliance consulting firm helping life science companies make data-driven decisions throughout their product development lifecycle.

How?
Cultivate insights from your QMS data in hours, not days using our technical expertise in off-the-shelf no-code, automation and AI/ML tools.

Build your phase-appropriate quality management system (QMS) that:

• Provides full transparency of product data, processes, systems, and people. 
• Automates performance monitoring and quality management reviews.
• Embeds compliance within flexible, user-friendly, organically built processes.
• Reduces the organization's quality costs by automating data collection, analysis, trending, and reporting.

To find out more about how we can help, please get in touch with me directly on the details below. 

☏ +1-919-213-8737
✉ hthakkar@qualtivate.com 	
Visit ☛ www.qualtivate.com

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