Network Capital

In this podcast you will learn

1. How to create your own luck
2. How to figure out your next career move
3. Art of connecting the dots

Luis Miranda is Chairman of the Centre for Civil Society and CORO. He has been involved in setting up 2 highly successful companies - HDFC Bank and IDFC Private Equity. He is a Co-Founder of the Indian School of Public Policy. Luis spends his time, with his wife, connecting dots; using their networks to help the organisations they are connected with. He is also on the board of Educate Girls and SBI Foundation and co-founded, Take Charge, a mentoring programme for Catholic youth in Mumbai. Luis is also Chairman of ManipalCigna Health Insurance and Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley. He is a Trustee of the UChicago Trust in India and a member of the Advisory Council of the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at Chicago Booth. Luis blogs for Forbes, Thrive Global and Spontaneous Order and teaches at the Accelerated Development Program of Chicago Booth. Luis received an MBA from the Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

HBS Professor | INSEAD MBA | Author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

In this podcast you will learn

1.Specific suggestions to transform negative perceptions, bias and adversity into competitive advantage

2.How to make a super awkward meeting with Elon Musk into one of the most productive discussions

3.Unexplored nuances of gender and accent when it comes to promotion and career advancement

Laura Huang is a Professor at Harvard Business School. She has spent her academic career studying interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. Her research has been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature, and she was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants. She is the author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, and the creator of the Princess Heroes book series for young girls.

Previously, she held positions in investment banking, consulting, and management, for organizations such as Standard Chartered Bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson. She received an MS and BSE in electrical engineering, both from Duke University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine.

Radio broadcasting, advertising agencies, Google, Amazon,... Christian Schoepke's career path has almost as much variety as his latest product focus: donuts. He left the sexy world of film licensing at Amazon's Prime Video service in 2019, only to find himself in-midst of barrels of hot frying oil on a London street food market. Holding an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD, Christian now combines his experience in marketing (agencies), negotiation (Amazon) and product development (own media company/Google/Amazon) to try himself on building a food brand, Little Didi's Donuts. Born in Germany, he moved to Canada at the age of 17. In 2002, he founded a Web-based agency with the world's largest roster of multi-lingual voiceover talent. In 2006, he co-founded a media production company that pioneered social media platforms and interactive video experiences. His work with Toronto agencies was featured on CNN, Buzzfeed and TechCrunch. And in-between the lines for when things didn't go as planned in his career, Christian dedicated himself to cleaning toilets and worked in construction.

In this podcast, Christian shares his journey that led him to make such a drastic life change, the shift in mindset required to move from a 'fun activity' to a 'business-building,' as well as how he approached risk in setting up his venture.

In this podcast you will learn:

1. Practical insights from the INSEAD MBA experience
2. What is it actually like to work at Amazon
3. How and when should you leave a job you love to do something you are passionate about

In this podcast you will learn:

1. What happens at Davos

2. How you can build a career attempting to solve climate change

3. Learn the advantages of living abroad and challenging oneself

Karolina is a Global Shaper based in the Stockholm Hub. She is employed at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)’s program for Climate Change and Risk, focusing on institutional responses to climate-related security risks. There, she is situated between academia and policy, where the translation of scientific findings to decision-making is at heart. Karolina is also a a regional member of the Climate and Environment Action Steering Committee of the Global Shapers Community, and a Future Thinker for the think tank Global Challenges (Global Utmaning) in Stockholm, advising the Council for Economy and Governance. As a Shaper, Karolina was selected to attend the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020. She has gathered professional experience from China, Australia, Spain, Colombia, Washington D.C and New York as a student, intern and researcher.

Miguel Angel Centeno was born in Cuba and by a miraculous set of adventures escaped to
Spain and then landed up in the United States. He was raised by a single mom and spent most of his teenage years in housing projects. With grit, relentless efforts and determination to escape poverty, Miguel graduated from Yale with scholarship. Among other degrees, he also got an MBA and worked in advertising for a while. He soon realized that the business world was not for him. He was far more inspired by deeper issues and abstract ideas. Today he is Vice Dean; Musgrave Professor of Sociology; Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University

In this riveting podcast you will
1. Explore the nuances of privilege
2. Understand the principles of building a meaningful career in social sciences
3. Learn what Marx and Adam Smith might say if they took a walk in the 21st century

This is Dr. Centeno in his own words

Born in Cuba. Came to the US at 10 and lived in Erie PA with a single mom. Got financial aid to Yale and then worked in business for several years as my mom became quite sick…… not sure what more!!

Academic Bio:

Miguel Centeno has published many articles, chapters, and books. His latest publications are War and Society (Polity 2016), Global Capitalism (Polity 2010), States in the Developing World (Cambridge UP, 2017) and State and Nation Making in the Iberian World (Cambridge UP , Vol 1, 2013; Vol. II 2018). He is the founder of the Research Community on Global Systemic Risk funded by PIIRS from 2013 (http://risk.princeton.edu. He is also working on book on the sociology of discipline. In 2000, he founded the Princeton University Preparatory Program, which provides intensive supplemental training for lower income students in local high schools. (http://pupp.princeton.edu/) He currently serves as Vice-Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the founding Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. From 1997-2004 he also served as Head of Wilson College at Princeton. From 2012 to 2017 he served as Chair of the Sociology Department.

In this podcast you will learn:

1. How to break into the world of investing
2. What are the most important skills required to excel as a VC
3. The importance of being a giver

Alexander is a partner of a San-Francisco based deep-tech venture capital fund Ruvento Ventures. There, he specialises on growth-stage AI, robotics and mobility investments in emerging markets and is responsible for late-stage portfolio development and fundraising from European and Asian corporations. Alexander is also an active startup mentor at Techstars, Founder Institute and Skolkovo Foundation.


Previously, he studied finance at Cambridge, worked in pan-European tech-focused investment banking and cross-border private equity funds, where he was involved primarily in arranging exits from portfolio and structuring M&A deals. Alexander has also founded his own business importing exotic wines into British hotels, restaurants and bars and in spare time is an amateur archeologist and a water sports enthusiast.

In this podcast you will learn the following:
1.Art of shaping your career by following your curiosity and conviction
2.Balancing growth and impact
3.Practical ways to build a zero-waste world empathetic to the environment

Sahar is the founder of Bare Necessities, a zero-waste personal care and home care brand that has recently raised funds from Social Alpha and other distinguished investors. She is a Cambridge alumna and her prior experience includes environmental planning, policy and law. Sahar formerly worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva and SELCO Foundation on decentralized energy policy. She is also a freelancer for Huffington Post UK and India.

In this podcast you will learn the following:

1. The art of pivoting your career. Silvana went from being a lawyer to the founder of a deep tech company after MIT
2. What it takes to conduct experiments with your professional goals and arrive at a journey that matters to you and makes a difference
3. Nuances of diversity of all kinds

Silvana López is the CEO & Co-founder of The Blockchain Challenge Inc., a Boston-based startup with technology and methodology inspired at MIT and focused on building a global community of Blockchain developers and enthusiasts. With a background in law and a graduate degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, she is a senior executive with expertise in technology transfer and intellectual property. Leader and entrepreneur, with over 14 years of global experience in innovation, knowledge management and technology licensing for global clients.

In this podcast you will learn:

1. How to break into VC without having prior experience
2. Honing the art of learning - reading, writing, thinking - on the job and outside
3. Nuances of pitching effectively

Aviral helps lead Guild's India investments. He has led Guild's investments into Wink&Nod, MegaExams, Qrius, NurseryLive etc.

Aviral graduated with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (Director's List for top 3%) and IIT Bombay. He runs a fascinating blog ajuniorvc.com focused on startup and investing trends.

In this podcast you will learn:

1. Mental models for building a career across technology, finance and public policy
2. Principles of institution building
3. Understanding nuances of working in the government

Arnab Kumar is Program Director at NITI Aayog, and drives NITI Aayog's strategy, policy and implementation initiatives in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Blockchain and Digital Economy. Arnab has contributed to India's Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (released in 2018) and has been driving the architecture of the proposed National Programme on AI. His key projects include Imaging BioBank for Cancer, India UK Healthcare AI Catalyst, Blockchain and IoT based Fertiliser Supply Chain solution. Arnab joined NITI Aayog as Founding Manager for Atal Innovation Mission, and developed strategy for AIM’s key initiatives including tinkering labs and early-stage technology fund, before setting up the Frontier Technologies practice.

An ex-investment banker, Arnab has worked for Deutsche Bank’s New York, Hong Kong and Singapore offices and has raised more than USD20bn in M&A, equity and debt transactions, primarily in FinTech, Financial Institutions and Technology deals. Arnab has also previously led product teams across 3 global locations for Oracle. Arnab is an alumnus of Indian School of Business, Columbia Business School, and Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Chevening CRISP Fellow (2019).