What we learnt this week

Fellowships, Masterclasses, and Newsletters

Dear readers, 

Here is an overview of the week that went by - 

💌 The two key newsletters from the previous week - Productize yourself and Should you set goals?

Effective writing is an exponentially high leverage skill. It helps you think, communicate and synthesise better. It sets you up for success. Good writing is a combination of practice, consistency and curiosity. In our newsletters before we have shared 8 ideas for great writing and talked about approaching publishers. With the writing fellowship we want to provide you an immersive experience in the writing ecosystem.

PS. The fellowship starts on April 24, 2021. We will be taking 30 fellows in this cohort.

Masterclasses

Mr. Kumar is a member of the Indian Administrative Service of 1987 batch. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur in Electrical Engineering, M Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas with concentration in Finance and Management Information Systems. After graduating from IIT, Kanpur in 1985, he was awarded a full scholarship for MS leading to PhD in Digital Electronics in Carnegie Melon University in Pennslyvania, USA.Mr. Kumar brings with him 33 years of experience in public administration.

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 responsible for driving successful outcomes for customers worldwide and across consumer, enterprise and government channels. Prior to heading global operations, Ishan built Udacity’s India business from the ground up.

Ipshita started her career as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank. She spent three years in early-stage VC and impact investing, focused on ed-tech and fin-tech, with the Dell Foundation and Elevar Equity in India. She then started up in the ed-tech and content discovery space, democratising discovery of learning-based content across the web. She's headed to business school at Stanford GSB in the fall, and is currently working with Nova Credit, a Bay Area startup. Nova helps immigrants moving to the US access financial products in the US, using their home-country credit history, so they can start their financial journey in the US on equal footing.

Newsletters 

AngelList founder Naval Ravikantoften tells us to productize ourselves. He explains that we should figure out what we're uniquely good at, and apply as much leverage as possible.

Productize Yourself = Specific Knowledge + Leverage

Let’s unpack specific knowledge and leverage.

In 1975, Doerr was working under Andy Grove, often touted as the greatest manager of all time. Grove invented the ‘Objectives and Key Results’ (OKRs) system for management because he believed that success was mostly about excellent execution. In the OKR system, the objective is the direction, or what you want to accomplish, and the key results are how you will get it done.

⚡️If you are new to Network Capital, start by going through our most popular - masterclass (Career Principles with Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller); newsletter(Writing Fast and Slow); and podcast (The art of writing with Dr. Shashi Tharoor)

💝 Connect and network with other Network Capital members here. You can sign up for a networking session and our serendipity tool here.

🗣 Sign ups are open for the Writing Fellowship. 

💞 If you need an invite to Clubhouse or Lunchclub, let [email protected] know. You can also reach out to them for feedback, suggestions, doubts and any help navigating the Network Capital ecosystem.