Network Capital

Network Capital

Network Capital’s (NC) mission is to democratize inspiration and make personalized mentoring and career guidance accessible to every person on the planet. We are a global community of more than 200,000 peer mentors from 104 countries who learn with and from each other. We are a subscription based career content and mentoring community 1. Serve as your personalized career coach in the form of global tribe of mentors. No matter what you are looking for, someone on Network Capital has done it. 2. Offer carefully curated jobs and internships 3. Access to Network Capital TV and all subgroups

  1. 1d ago

    Is Space Exploration Still a Pipe Dream?

    Space is back at the centre of economic and geopolitical conversations. Over the past few years, SpaceX has become one of the most important technology companies in the world, Starlink has reached millions of users, and Starship has opened a new debate about what becomes possible next. In this episode, Dhruva speaks with Utkarsh and takes a slightly different approach from the podcast’s usual debate format. Rather than arguing a position, Dhruva plays the role of an interested sceptic and asks questions to explore one central idea: are we at the beginning of a new era in the space economy? The conversation begins with why space is suddenly attracting so much attention again. It then turns to SpaceX and the economics of access to space, asking what bottlenecks have existed in the past and what new technologies are making possible now. From there, the discussion widens to the business model of space itself, including three possible paths for the sector: colonising space, using space as a resource, and generating technological spillovers that create value on Earth. The episode also explores the geopolitical question, including the relationship between private companies and governments, and the risks that come with an increasingly strategic space domain. It closes with a broader historical question about what would need to happen for us to say that SpaceX truly changed the course of history.

    47 min
  2. Book Discussion with 'Lean Spark' Authors Jaideep Prabhu, Priyank Narayan, Mukesh Sud

    May 10

    Book Discussion with 'Lean Spark' Authors Jaideep Prabhu, Priyank Narayan, Mukesh Sud

    India is entering a decade where ingenuity under constraint will decide who leads and who falls behind. LeanSpark shows how India’s ‘high-tech jugaad’ is turning scarcity into an innovation superpower—across drones and EVs, fintech and AI, sports, space and public policy. It distils a decade of research and fieldwork into a practical playbook for doing more with less, and for doing it at scale. This book will help you: Build frugal, high-tech ventures that start small but scale smart, using the LeanSpark attributes of lean execution, purposeful simplicity, adaptive scalability and systemic sustainability.Design products, services and policies that are affordable, resilient and environmentally conscious—without sacrificing ambition or quality.Apply the Frugal Innovation Canvas (FIC) to turn constraints into launchpads, whether you are in a start-up, large company, social enterprise or government.Learn from real stories: from drones transforming sports broadcasting and DPIs reshaping finance, to ISRO’s space missions and India’s frugal AI revolution.Translate India’s frugal ingenuity into frameworks you can use in any country facing limits of capital, infrastructure or climate. Order Book https://www.amazon.in/dp/0143480618

    54 min

  3. May 9

    Understanding the Space Economy with Harvard Business School Professor Matthew Weinzierl

    Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2022 through 2025, he served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program at HBS, where he also teaches courses on economic policy and the space sector. His research focuses on the optimal design of economic policy, in particular taxation, with an emphasis on better understanding the philosophical principles underlying policy choices, and on the commercialization of the space sector and its economic implications. Prior to completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 2008, Professor Weinzierl served as the Staff Economist for Macroeconomics on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and worked in the New York office of McKinsey & Company.   Professor Weinzierl has written on a range of topics in optimal taxation and optimal economic policy more generally. His work in Positive Optimal Tax Theory has focused on identifying and formalizing the goals for tax policy that hold sway among the public, political and economic leaders, and leading tax thinkers, and then characterizing the implications of using those objectives in the analysis of optimal taxation. Professor Weinzierl currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He previously served as Senior Associate Dean, Chair of the MBA Program and as Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum (RC). Prior to those positions, he was the coursehead for Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), an RC course, and Chair of MBA Community Standards and the Conduct Review Board at HBS. He has created and currently teaches two courses in the Elective Curriculum: The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME) and Space, Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE). Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier https://shorturl.at/5W1QU

    52 min

  4. Apr 23

    [Arguable] Factories or Fiber? What Will Actually Make Developing Countries Rich?

    For decades, the classic path to prosperity seemed clear: build factories, create jobs, grow exports, and lift millions out of poverty. But in a world shaped by AI, automation, and the internet, that model no longer feels so certain. We debate whether developing countries should still bet on manufacturing, or whether services offer a faster and more realistic route to growth. Along the way, we explore jobs, inequality, education, globalization, and whether the future belongs to industrial powerhouses or digitally connected economies.

    48 min

  5. Apr 20

    Career Principles with INSEAD Professor Dr. Linda Brimm

    Career Principles with INSEAD Professor Dr. Linda Brimm Linda Brimm is Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, teaching both in the MBA and executive programmes. Along with her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Brimm created and ran the psychological service for the MBA programme at INSEAD. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she also works with both individuals and families at a centre she co-founded in Paris.

    24 min

  6. Apr 18

    Career Principles with Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Shiller

    Career Principles with Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Shiller Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics Yale University About this masterclass Mental models for expanding your thinkingAdvice for young graduatesUniversities of the futureCareers in academics Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management.

    40 min

  7. Apr 14

    Is this the end of the American empire?

    Some argue that the age of American dominance is beginning to fracture, as rival powers rise, global trust erodes, and the institutions that once upheld U.S. leadership lose their force. Others contend that talk of decline is overstated, and that America remains the world’s central economic, military, and cultural power, however contested its position may now be. We explore whether the United States is witnessing a temporary crisis of legitimacy or the deeper unravelling of an empire. We debate the meaning of a more multipolar world: whether it promises a healthier diffusion of power, or a more unstable international order marked by uncertainty, conflict, and competing spheres of influence. Along the way, we examine the enduring power of the dollar, the challenge posed by China and other rising states, and the global systems that still bear the imprint of American primacy. Our discussion also turns to the moral dimension of empire. Has America lost the authority to present itself as a force for freedom and stability, or was that claim always more myth than reality? We engage directly with difficult questions about war, soft power, and political legitimacy, and ask whether the end of American hegemony would mark the beginning of a fairer world, or simply the arrival of a more dangerous one. Shownotes: Read Utkarsh’s article, “We are all birds of a distant land” here: https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2026/Mar/22/we-are-all-birds-of-a-distant-land

    45 min

  8. Mar 24

    Discussion with Management Consultant Turned Award-Winning Novelist Santanu Bhattacharya

    Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of two novels, One Small Voice and Deviants, and several works of short fiction. One Small Voice was an Observer Best Debut Novel for 2023, and was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Deviants won the Rainbow Award and BLF-Atta Galata Prize 2025, and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Santanu is the recipient of the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency, the Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize, and a London Writers’ Award. He grew up in India, and now lives in London.

    51 min
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Network Capital’s (NC) mission is to democratize inspiration and make personalized mentoring and career guidance accessible to every person on the planet. We are a global community of more than 200,000 peer mentors from 104 countries who learn with and from each other. We are a subscription based career content and mentoring community 1. Serve as your personalized career coach in the form of global tribe of mentors. No matter what you are looking for, someone on Network Capital has done it. 2. Offer carefully curated jobs and internships 3. Access to Network Capital TV and all subgroups

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  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
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