Dear reader,

Utkarsh started building Network Capital way back in 2016. It started off as a passion project, scaled to become one of the largest communities across the world, got featured on Harvard Business Review and eventually raised funding from Facebook as part of their community accelerator program.

In this live cohort-based course, you will learn from Utkarsh and figure out ways to launch your own community.

This course is for -

1. Founders: Every company needs a community. Whether you are selling software or gourmet cheese, a thriving community is perhaps the most important asset in your endeavor to scale. Founders will learn the art and science of making it happen.

2. Chief Community Officers: Chief Community Officer (CCO) will be one of the most coveted jobs in the years to come. If you want to be a CCO, this course will equip you with the right skills, frameworks and networks to make it happen

3. Content Creators: Everyone is a content creator these days. Product managers, civil servants, investors, general managers are now in the business of scaling themselves through the power of content. But what is content without a community? At best, an underutilized asset. The Network Capital Community Building Fellowship will teach you how to find the content-community-market fit. 

4. Investors: Community based investing is at all time high. Investors who want to understand where “community as a service” business model is going will learn specific insights about emerging new trends. They might even find their next investment from the fellowship.

5. Young Professionals: For young professionals who want to build their category of one, investing time and energy in learning the art of community building will turn out to be a wise long-term bet. 

Global Challenges, Global Opportunities and Global Outlook: The Network Capital Journey

Note for Utkarsh Amitabh, Founder & CEO of Network Capital

My immediate family comes from India, France, Lebanon, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. My memories from INSEAD, World Economic Forum, Microsoft, Wharton, Oxford were shaped by the most interesting people from 100+ countries. Over the last 7 years, I have traveled to 82 nations around the world – from smart villages in India to the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. All these experiences have made me realize the importance of approaching global challenges and opportunities with a global outlook.

The big challenges in the world cannot be solved by any one country, one group of people. It needs radical collaboration across borders and boundaries. When I started Network Capital, my dream was to have students and young leaders from vastly different political, social, economic outlooks to learn with and from each other. Today I am happy to share that NC has local subgroups all across the globe. No matter where you are, you will find NC community members. By enabling peer-to-peer mentorship, we play a meaningful role in shaping meaningful careers and also sensitize our members towards different cultures and convictions.

Most people think that NC brings together likeminded, ambitious people to learn from each other. While that is true, the real joy of seeing NC in action is witnessing how people who have strongly differing political and economic views mentor each other, take cohort-based-courses together, participate in offline meetups, refer each other for jobs, provide thoughtful recommendations. A world where everyone is alike is a boring world. We must make room for diversity of all kinds to flourish. That is a key design principle of NC.

In a world where loud mouths are constantly highlighting our differences, building Network Capital made me realize how much all 7 billion people on Earth have in common. No matter where we come from, we want to find autonomy, mastery and purpose at work. We want to build meaningful careers.

Yes, people mostly come to NC for career advice and mentorship, but even when they achieve their short/medium term goals they stay on because they find deep connection with each other. That’s the culture we have co-created every day since our inception.

With the Facebook funding announcement, I am of course glad we get capital and strategic support to grow. I look forward to collaborating with the 129 other impactful community builders and CEOs who also became part of the Facebook Accelerator. Most of them are a lot more experienced than me and I am eager to learn from them

Our mission is to help every person and every organization on the planet build their category of one. This mission cannot be fulfilled alone. It gives me strength to have the support of all of you – NC members – and the inspiring set of community leaders selected for the Facebook Community Accelerator. With the “Gradatim Ferociter” (step by step, ferociously), we can do this.

P.S. If you want to read more about our funding and future plans, please refer to this

P.P.S. If you want to learn the art and science of community building, signup for the NC Community Building Fellowship 

💝 If you want to learn how to navigate the Network Capital ecosystem, please read this article. 

✍🏼 Read our founder Utkarsh Amitabh’s Harvard Business Review articles here Building Your Category of One, Should You Choose Passion Over Paycheck, How to Make Envy Work for You?, and The Right Way to Make a Big Career Transition

💞 Read our founder Utkarsh Amitabh’s book Seductive Illusion of Hard Work. The foreword written by Klaus Schwab, the founder of World Economic Forum.