Network Capital’s April Adventures

Everyone, my name is Utkarsh. I'm the CEO of Network Capital. I'm just here to tell you a bit about what's happening here on April. And we have a wide range of fellowships, the first of which is the D2C fellowship which is going to be co curated by Arjun and Trisha Vaidya. They had a powerful exit recently, making one of the first few D2C exits in the space. They've talked about the curriculum in great detail and we already have loads of people registered for the fellowship. I hope you consider joining us and learn from Trisha and Arjun thereafter. We have the Writing Fellowship. I truly believe that I am what I am still a work in progress, but I owe it to writing. Clearly it develops you in you. The power to see the world with a fresh set of eyes. And communicating that idea and that insight in short crisp sentences is a life skill all of us should learn from. You will hear from my mum, Dr. Anamika. You will hear from other internationally acclaimed authors. I'll tell you a bit about what I write and how I write. And by the time you graduate from the Writing Fellowship you will know how to get published. You will know what it takes to get a book out there, what it takes to get yourself in front of editors of major magazine and newspapers. We also have a summer school coming up in a few months. The registrations are on. We're not going to make summer school particularly large. We're going to take small, small batches of 20 kids each and help them write better, think better and augment their critical thinking skills. So if you know some ambitious, curious teenager, please send them our way on NetworkCapital TV. Check out the fellowships. I'm really excited by the curriculum that our team has come up with and I really want children to be able to think through why they want to do what they want to do and avoid this FOMO based edtech mania that's going around today. We are about to conclude the Community Building Fellowship and I found it so, you know, moving that one of the fellows sent a thought provoking note thanking me about for a master class that somebody called Manal Kahi from New York Chapter had put together. You know, receiving messages from our community members, from our fellows, from our subscribers essentially makes me do what I do and I look forward to bringing such mystical, powerful fellowship experiences to you every month. And as our team is growing, our Network Capital community is growing. I look forward to doing this, scaling intimacy, propelling different kinds of experiences for all of you. One question that I constantly keep thinking about is what might serendipity look like in a post pandemic world. So today's newsletter, for example, was focused on this particular question and I talked about the importance of weekend projects and side hustles. So one of the companies that I invested in, Gumroad, was built over a weekend indie hacker. Another few weekends, YouTube. The first version took hardly, you know, a few weekends to put together. And Patreon, that recently raised $155 million, also was ready in less than a month. So if any of you is looking for ways to creatively spend their time, I strongly encourage you to give that passion project a try and tell us what you're doing. Join some of the Network Capital fellowships. You owe it to yourself to try and I'm personally always available for a conversation. You can write to me at UtkarshitNetworkCapital TV. Honestly, I love doing what I do. Serving you in interesting and meaningful ways adds a lot of delight to my life. So thank you all very much for being there and doing what you do. It matters to me and I always have time for you. You take care and talk to you soon. Bye.