Network Capital

This podcast covers -  The art of meaningful career transitions. How to become a dreamer and a doer: Frameworks of ‘zooming in & zooming out’. The importance of nurturing talent and empowering new leaders. Insights on multi-generational leadership in managing work, home and society. Indra K. Nooyi served as CEO and chairman of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2019. Her prescient strategic thinki...

This podcast covers -  Insights from building a global company based out of india The impact of making hard-work as muscle memory Building your tribe of mentors and supporters Ms. Farzana Haque is the Global Head of Large Accounts SBU at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). TCS is a leading global information technology company with over US$12 Billion in revenues. TCS is India’s most valued...

This podcast covers -  How giving advice to others helps us more than it helps them The importance of setting ‘flexible’ goals. Forgetfulness and the art of avoiding everyday errors. Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the former president...

This podcast covers -  Gen Z careers and the passion economy Bytedance’s quest to become “borderless as Google” TikTok product evolution and algorithm Chris Stokel-Walker is a British journalist whose work regularly appears in WIRED, The Economist and Insider. He is known for breaking major news about YouTube and TikTok and often reports on the site for television, radio and podcasts.&nb...

Mercedes’ path to VC is a true convergence of her life experiences — a childhood surrounded by inventors, studies at Harvard and Stanford, finance roles at the Federal Reserve and Goldman, and managing P&L at startups in VR and EdTech, and her long-term goal of empowering communities she cares about. She began her venture capital career at Owl Ventures before joining Lightspeed’s con...

Suneel Gupta is the author of the bestselling book "Backable". The book is rooted in Suneel’s journey from the "Face of Failure" for the New York Times to the "New Face of Innovation" for the New York Stock Exchange. Suneel is the founding CEO of RISE, which partnered with then first-Lady Michelle Obama to deliver low-cost healthcare services to people in need. Rise was named "App of the Year" by...

Dr Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Sa...

Jake is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pallet. Prior to this, we was an intern at Peloton. He is also a former Stanford wrestler. He is based in NYC.

Suhani Jalota, from Mumbai, India, is pursuing a PhD in health policy at Stanford School of Medicine and an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and global health from Duke University, where she was a Baldwin Scholar and a Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurship fellow. She aspires to become a social health entrepreneur, creating self-sustain...

Stephanie Wander is a technology and innovation strategist with a successful track record of launching large-scale projects to solve global grand challenges. Ms. Wander’s approaches integrate innovation best practices and mindsets including design thinking, behavior change strategies, foresight techniques, and expert and public crowdsourcing. Previously, Stephanie Wander was a Lecturer at the USC...

Faves is my second company. I’ve raised over $12.5 million from angels & VCs (including Mark Cuban and Pear VC, who gave DoorDash their first check). At my first startup, we set out to create a nail polish that detects date rape drugs. The product ended up becoming a keychain and has saved dozens of lives. I’m a member of the On Deck Fellowship and a graduate of Stanford Business School.

In this world full of plastic and chemical waste, how can you help save the planet? Did you know that there will be more plastic than fish in our seas by 2050? Did you know that it takes 20,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans? Did you know that we have a massive food wastage problem, and yet millions die of hunger each day? Bare Necessities is your one-stop guide on how to move towards a m...

Roberts is director and professor at the School of Public Policy. He writes extensively on problems of governance, law, and public policy. His most recent book,  Strategies for Governing , was published by Cornell University Press in 2020. Roberts was elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration in 2007. From 2009 to 2017, he was co-editor of the journal Govern...

Rohan Pasricha is a US Army veteran currently working for Amazon as their Sr. Regional Manager for the South-West region. Rohan’s career path took a major shift when he ended up joining US Army after writing a blog in response to the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. He was literally plucked out of the classroom on a US student visa and pulled into the US Army battlefield. He ended up doing his MBA...

Ishan is an entrepreneur, global executive & team builder who loves creating and scaling up businesses. He  is driven by the idea of democratising access across various dimensions and has spent all his professional life doing so through his work in the areas of education, finance & information. Ishan is currently the Global Head of Operations at Udacity. In this capacity, he is r...

Ipshita is an incoming Stanford GSB MBA student, and is currently working with  Nova Credit . Nova helps immigrants moving to the US start their financial journey on an equal footing, by helping them use their home country credit history, to access financial products in the US. Prior to Nova, Ipshita was the founder of a social-first content discovery platform for educational content. Sh...

Inspired by the Socratic method, and a long tradition of philosophers who were interested in the practical side ofphilosophy, I am interested in working with people and enterprises to cultivate an action-driven, belief-disrupting,philosophical way of thinking.

Jed is a venture builder who has launched new tech businesses around the world. He's built and run the world's largest API Marketplace in partnership with A16Z-backed RapidAPI. He has been an angel investor and leads syndicate for 4 years. He recently launched Angel-School.co : A hands-on, fully-remote fellowship program to help emerging Angels invest via their own syndicates. He holds an MBA...

Sanjeev Sanyal is the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India.  An internationally acclaimed economist and best-selling author, he spent two decades in the financial sector and was Global Strategist & Managing Director at Deutsche Bank till 2015. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist....

Mohini Gupta is currently a research scholar in language politics at the University of Oxford. She founded the multilingual digital collective Mother Tongue Twisters to promote Indian language poetry for young readers, and curate conversations on literary translation. Mohini was the Charles Wallace India Trust Translator-Writer Fellow in 2017 for creative writing and translation, hosted by Literat...

During his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'. Before joining the IAS in 1981, he served the IPS for a year. He won Director's Gold Medal at the LBS National Academy of Administration amongst the officers of his batch. As a civil servant, he held various assignments within both the State (UP) and Central Govt. During the final years of his career, he served as Secr...

Damon Centola is a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research addresses social networks and behavior change. His work has been published...

Anisa Mirza is a software entrepreneur, passionate about the intersection of technology and social causes. A 2x founder, Mirza is a Y Combinator alum and named Forbes Top 30 Under 30 Social Innovators for 2016. She is the Founder and President of Tiny Broadway, the leading education platform for arts and theatre experiences. Her first company, Giveffect, is the all-in-one software for nonprofits a...

Prateek Kanwal is a World Bank Scholar and did his Master in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School in United States. He did his undergraduate studies in Finance & Accounting from NMIMS, Mumbai. Over a period of last 10 years, he has worked across government, private and non-profit sector both nationally and internationally. This experience has allowed him...

Dr. Christian Busch is the director of the Global Economy program at New York University's Center for Global Affairs, where he teaches on purpose-driven leadership, impact entrepreneurship, social innovation, and emerging markets. He is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, an organization convening high-impact leaders, as well as the S...