Utkarsh Amitabh, Founder and CEO, Network Capital
Utkarsh Amitabh is the Chief Marketing Officer of 5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 Billion. 5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital.
Podcast
Overview
Career development is the process of choosing a career, improving your skills, and advancing along a career path. It’s a lifelong process of learning and decision-making that brings you closer to your ideal job, skill set, and lifestyle.
Find out more about the factors and obstacles that affect a person’s career development in this episode with Utkarsh Amitabh.
00:40- About Utkarsh Amitabh
- Utkarsh Amitabh is the Chief Marketing Officer of 5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 Billion. 5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital (networkcapital.tv), one of the world’s largest mentorship platforms that empowers 1.6 million school students and 150,000+ young professionals to build meaningful careers.
- He is a writer at Harvard Business Review, a Chevening Fellow at the University of Oxford, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper who represented the community at the Annual Meeting in Davos.
- He is the author of two best-selling books published by Sage – “The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work” and “Passion Economy and the Side Hustle Revolution”. World Economic Forum founder Professor Klaus Schwab wrote the foreword for both of his books.
01:02- About Network Capital
- Outcome-driven mentorship platform trusted by 150,000+ professionals Backed by 5ire.org (valued at $1.5B)
- I have been very interested in how people choose their careers.
- While I was working at Microsoft, I started a passion project that I would pursue on weekends, and it became very large and turned into a global movement.
- In 2020, I left Microsoft to pursue Network Capital full-time.
- We offer structured mentorship to students, young professionals, and senior executives so that they can undertake career transitions that give them meaning, autonomy, and purpose in order to build interesting careers.
11:24- How does the hiring work on Network Capital?
- The best way to understand is that Oxford on the internet.
- These nano degrees are usually in partnership with top companies.
- We’re not saying that we will tell you who to hire, but at the end of the Nano degree, there is a demo day when students present their assignments, and the students who do best get hired by the firm.
- It is a very clear and transparent process.
21:43- Three lessons
- Explore then exploit. There is a lot of pressure to figure out what you want to do with your life very early. Everyone has different superpowers.
- Make writing your hobby, then make it your profession. Writing helps you become a better thinker.
- Do not follow your passion blindly, follow your curiosity.
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Profile
- Utkarsh Amitabh is the Chief Marketing Officer of 5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 Billion. 5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital (networkcapital.tv), one of the world’s largest mentorship platforms that empowers 1.6 million school students and 150,000+ young professionals to build meaningful careers.
- He is a writer at Harvard Business Review, a Chevening Fellow at the University of Oxford, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper who represented the community at the Annual Meeting in Davos.
- He is the author of two best-selling books published by Sage – “The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work” and “Passion Economy and the Side Hustle Revolution”. World Economic Forum founder Professor Klaus Schwab wrote the foreword for both of his books.
