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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 internships3. Access to Network Capital TV and all subgroups
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- 1 weeks ago55 min
Dusk or Dawn? India's Emerging Tomorrow with Kiran Karnik
What should progress look like in a country being transformed by technology, aspiration and demographic change?In this Network Capital conversation, Kiran Karnik reflects on his new book, Dusk or Dawn? Essays on India and the Emerging Tomorrow.Drawing on a career spanning India's space programme, broadcasting and the technology industry, Karnik brings a long view to urgent questions. His essays examine what artificial intelligence could mean for work and learning, how migration and ageing are changing family life, why cities struggle to meet basic needs, and how status shapes our ambitions. Running through the book is a larger question: how can technological and economic change translate into a better everyday life?About Kiran KarnikKiran Karnik is a former President of NASSCOM and chaired the government-appointed board of Satyam Computer Services following its 2009 accounting fraud. He spent more than two decades at ISRO, working on satellite-based education and communication initiatives, including SITE and the Kheda Communication Project. He was Founder-Director of the Consortium for Educational Communication and later led Discovery Networks in India, launching Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in South Asia. A physics graduate of Bombay University and an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, he received the Padma Shri in 2007.Book Link: https://www.amazon.in/Dusk-Dawn-Kiran-Karnik/dp/9363361209
- 1 weeks ago54 min
Pixxel’s Co-Founders Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal on Building the Global Planetary Infrastructure
In 2019, Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal started Pixxel from their dorm room at BITS Pilani. They named it after the smallest unit of an image, reflecting their goal of giving Earth a digital identity through hyperspectral data. Today Pixxel runs a six-satellite hyperspectral constellation, builds satellites for others, and has raised $195 million, including a $100 million Series C co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, the largest round in Indian space-tech history.In this conversation, the cofounders trace that journey from demo satellites to the Firefly constellation launched in 2025. They describe how they got customers and partners to trust them before they had a product in orbit. They talk about the vendor problems that pushed back their first launch from February 2021, and why they scrapped their original constellation design for a more capable one. They also explain where their edge lies in global hyperspectral imaging and in Indian satellite manufacturing, how the creation of IN-SPACe and new government support changed the game for private space companies in India, and what it will take to produce more than 50 satellites a quarter by late 2028 or early 2029.
- Sep 17, 202656 min
Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracies with INSEAD Professor Henrich R. Greve
Ctrl+Alt+Doubt offers a new way to understand why conspiracy theories grow and persist. Rather than treating them as cognitive errors, psychological pathologies, or products of echo chambers, Rao and Greve analyze conspiracy theories as linguistic constructions—stories built from recognizable semantic patterns. Using tools from distributional semantics, they map the semantic space of conspiracy talk and show how meanings are assembled, recombined, and diffused online.Book Link:https://amzn.eu/d/0bzPaFXC
- Aug 30, 202642 min
Leadership Principles by Astronaut, Physician, and Citizen Scientist Dr. Shawna Pandya
Dr. Shawna Pandya is a Canadian physician, commercial astronaut, aquanaut, researcher, and international speaker working at the intersection of space medicine, human performance, technology, and extreme environments. She is the first named female Canadian commercial astronaut and is scheduled to fly aboard Virgin Galactic’s Delta-class spacecraft with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS).Dr. Pandya serves as Director of the IIAS Space Medicine Group, Chief Instructor for Operational Space Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta, and Chief of Space Medicine at the Advanced SpaceLife Research Institute. She is also VP of Immersive Medicine at Luxsonic Technologies and a Fellow of the Explorers’ Club.Her field experience spans 12 parabolic-flight campaigns and more than 180 microgravity/reduced-gravity parabolas, two aquanaut missions totaling over 235 hours underwater, suborbital research, centrifuge training, spacecraft emergency egress, sea survival, wilderness medicine, and a command role at the Mars Desert Research Station. Her research has contributed to experiments associated with the International Space Station, Polaris Dawn, and Blue Origin.She previously trained or interned at the European Astronaut Centre and NASA Johnson Space Center and has published work covering commercial spaceflight medicine, human resilience, space technology, and long-duration space exploration.An internationally recognized speaker, Dr. Pandya has presented for organizations and institutions including the Canadian Space Agency, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, World Extreme Medicine, and the Explorers’ Club, as well as major aerospace and medical conferences worldwide.Her recognitions include being named among the Women’s Executive Network Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, the Explorers’ Club 50 Explorers Changing the World, a Canadian Space Agency Space Ambassador, a Karman Pioneer, and a recipient of recognition from the Women’s Space Awards.Dr. Pandya holds degrees in Neuroscience, Space Studies, and Medicine. Beyond medicine and spaceflight, she is an advanced and rescue diver, solo skydiver, pilot-in-training, and black belt in Taekwondo, reflecting a career built around exploration, resilience, science, and pushing the boundaries of human potential.
- Aug 24, 202627 min
An Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible, with Eiman Jahangir
In his deeply inspiring book, part memoir, part guide; astronaut and cardiologist Dr. Eiman Jahangir invites readers into a journey shaped by war, rejection, loss, and an unshakable belief in possibility. Born in Tehran during the Iran–Iraq War and raised in Nashville, Jahangir grew up gazing at the night sky with two impossible dreams: to become a doctor and to travel to space.After multiple NASA finalist rounds, he faced a choice familiar to anyone who has dared greatly: shrink the dream or redefine the path. In the new era of commercial spaceflight, he chose the latter. On August 29, 2024, he became the first Iranian American man to travel to space, proving that the road to extraordinary achievement is rarely straight.Interwoven throughout his story are eight compelling interviews with modern space pioneers, including current NASA administrator Jared Isaacman; Nicole Stott; Sian Proctor; Kellie Gerardi; Hayley Arceneaux; Eytan Stibbe; Chris Huie; and Drew Gaffney. More than a space memoir, this book offers a hard-earned blueprint for purposeful living. Grab this book: https://www.eimanjahangir.com/book/
- Aug 1, 202645 min
Burn Bright, Build Slow: Sandhya Sabapathy on Building a Just Climate Future
In this episode of the Network Capital Podcast, Sandhya Sabapathy, author of Burn Bright, Build Slow: How to Build a Just Climate Future, explores the ideas, institutions and leadership models required to address the climate crisis.The conversation reflects Network Capital’s broader interest in how individuals and organisations can combine purpose, intellectual curiosity and practical action. Sandhya argues that lasting progress cannot be built through urgency alone. It requires patient institution-building, equitable systems and leaders capable of balancing commercial ambition with social and environmental responsibility.Sandhya is the Founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope, a sustainability and business-resilience accelerator. She has worked across more than 40 markets, collaborating with FTSE 100 companies, Fortune 500 businesses and public–private partnerships. She was also recognised among the Financial Times Women of the Future 50 ESG Stars.The episode examines why climate solutions must be both scalable and just, how businesses can embed sustainability into their operating models, and why meaningful change often requires us to burn bright while building slowly.Purchase Burn Bright, Build Slow on Amazon UK:https://kaleidoscope.earth/burn-bright-build-slow/
- Jul 23, 202645 min
Should university admissions be determined solely by examination performance, or should they assess the applicant as a whole?
Harvard's holistic admissions system emerged in the 1920s, in part to reduce the number of Jewish students who had excelled under an examination-based system. "Character" and "fit" became the language through which discrimination could be exercised. That history remains the strongest argument for examinations: anyone with access to the syllabus and sufficient preparation can, in principle, compete on equal terms, and what the paper cannot see cannot be turned against the candidate.Yet examinations are difficult to defend as the sole criterion for admission. A few hours on a single day can determine a student's future, while late bloomers, unconventional thinkers, and those whose abilities are not easily captured by timed tests are overlooked. Nor are examinations immune to inequality. Years of expensive coaching can meaningfully improve performance, sustaining an industry built on converting financial resources into higher scores.Holistic admissions try to capture what exams miss: curiosity, resilience, creativity, leadership, and potential. But they also rely on subjective judgement. Essays, interviews, recommendations, and extracurricular activities are difficult to evaluate consistently, and many of the experiences that make an application stand out, from research internships to international volunteering, can be bought just as coaching for entrance exams can.What is a university for? Is it an institution that identifies those who are already exceptional, or one that cultivates potential?
- Jul 18, 202634 min
How Norwegian Member of Parliament Himanshu Gulati Built His Category of One
Himanshu Gulati is an Indian-origin Norwegian politician from the Progress Party and a member of the Storting representing Akershus. Known for his work in education, foreign affairs, and defense, he has built a reputation as a sharp and disciplined voice in Norwegian politics. He currently serves in leadership roles on the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Enlarged Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. Gulati first rose to national prominence as one of Norway’s youngest political figures, later becoming the youngest state secretary in the Solberg government, and he remains one of the country’s most recognizable Indian-origin public figures.
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