Next Chapter

We have exciting news 🚀 Introducing the new Melbourne City Lead of Next Chapter Keith Menezes Keith has been a Nextie for a few months after joining in Nov 24’. He's a generalist with a deep passion for unlocking human potential, and is driven by a desire to meaningfully increase the length and quality of human time ('time-span'). Keith has a unique blend of interests and experiences. Whilst completing his undergrad, he worked in Europe consulting on AI, coached in martial arts , pitched his own recruitment company, performed at a music festival, and travelled across most of Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is currently pursuing a project based learning gap year, writing publicly on his interests, and will be a central node for our Melbourne city hub, facilitating connection between the top 1% of ambitious young people. Welcome Keith, we are thrilled for what's to come.

We are very happy to announce that Stanley Tanudjaja is joining Next Chapter as Sydney City Lead! Stanley has been a Nextie for 3 years joining in Feb 22’. He has a deep passion for helping people and has been learning how to use all the levers to create a better future. Stanley has worn many hats. A renewable energy engineer by trade, he has worked at 3 venture-backed startups, a family office, software private equity firm and energy advisory firm - while completing his undergrad. He is the founder and organiser of the Emerging Giants Summit in Sydney empowering 20 fellows from around the world to create global impact. Our city leads are central nodes, connecting our city hub ecosystems. Next Chapter brings together the best young founders globally. We are the go to place for the top 1% of ambitious young people and this will make our Sydney city hub even greater. We are thrilled to have Stan on board!

27-year-old Dan Brockwell is the founder transforming careers education with Australia's first business sales grad program 𝗗𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: - During school Dan has worked in a myriad of roles in product, sales, ops & marketing at hyper growth startups like Atlassian, Uber, Amazon and Ofload - It's led him to like do cool things like building a predictive model for video game demand & work on the sales team trialling the Uber Eats expansion to groceries - In 2020, Dan co-founded Earlywork (http://earlywork.co/), Australia's biggest newsletter & community dedicated to early-career tech & startup roles, named 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝘁𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀: - Build Australia's 1st business sales grad program, helping hundreds of jobseekers land roles in sales alongside helping employers hire & train junior sales talent 𝗗𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀: - Expanding deeper into industry verticals beyond tech - Going deeper into sales coaching products - Exploring new regions & roles - Mission is to build a career-first education system See what advice resonated with Dan throughout his journey. 👇

19-year old Shreya is a talented software engineer building bridges between young people in tech and policy to accelerate the growth of Australia’s tech ecosystem. 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘆𝗮'𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 • Shreya is a Software Engineer intern at Mutinex ($130m valuation), a Marketing Mix Modeling startup • As well as interning, she's exploring creating effective tech policy by advising for the Parliament of NSW as a Technology and Policy Advisor • While coding is her core, she’s also exploring side projects, with a keen interest on Quantum Computing and Robotics 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘆𝗮'𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 • In the future, Shreya hopes to build at the intersection of international relations and technology but is also passionate about exploring the future of medtech and edtech Welcome to the community Shreya! 💪

Meet Michael Del Casino, a genius 26-year-old AI engineer at Anduril with a fascinating journey across tech, software and high-frequency trading. 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹’𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: • While at college, Michael dropped out of a full-tuition math scholarship to lead software dev at a high-frequency trading firm in Puerto Rico, executing $1B/year in trades • After starting at Anduril, he and a friend founded and architected the IRAD project that developed into the Bolt-M platform. • Bolt-M is an AI-powered loitering munition, the most advanced in its class, and was recently awarded a $250M program of record by the United States Marine Corps. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁? Michael plans to start a company that brings real-time AI applications to the physical world, drawing on from his past innovations. At the core, Michael is curious and reflects on often being the “odd man out” in the short-run, but ending up flying farther above any herd-mentality in the long-term. Check Mike’s recommendations for content that’s influenced him the most.

Meet the community member who founded a CPG business at 18 years old and grew to nearly 9-figures: Matt Wan 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁’𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗼 𝗙𝗮𝗿 • At 18, Matt founded Momentous, now the official supplements partner of CrossFit and collaborator with the US Department of Defense       𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘀 delivers highest quality, research-backed dietary supplements designed to elevate everyday performance and support a sustainable, active lifestyle.        Earned a spot on the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗜𝗻𝗰. 𝟱𝟬𝟬𝟬 for 300% revenue growth and recognized as one of 𝗨𝘁𝗮𝗵’𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻. (https://lnkd.in/gdyEfZfR)     • For 5.5 years, Matt led Momentous as CEO after leaving college in his freshman year, overseeing its growth before selling a controlling stake to private equity last year. • In the last 2.5 years, Matt worked at JAZZ Venture Partners from a Senior Associate role to a Principal. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁’𝘀 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 • With JAZZ’s backing, Matt recently launched 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘁 (http://becurrent.co/), a consumer business creating superior alternatives to nicotine and tobacco products. • Matt continues to serve as a Principal at JAZZ. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁’𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 • Matt’s goal for Sett is to get 1B off of tobacco and vape products. • In the long-term, Matt hopes to move into an Exec Chair role with Sett and find/build a forever-role in investing. With strengths in fundraising, team-building, and identifying high-potential startup opportunities, Matt is sure to see continued success in business and venture. We're so excited to see where his journey goes.

Our end of year intake closes at the end of this weekend. A core axiom of ours is that you are the average of those around you. So our community is an environment that strives to make the exceptional normal. Our members range from under 30 year old founders like Max Marchione (Founder @Superpower 4m pre-seed from Balaji, Cyan Bannister, Zuckerberg), Simon Kubica (3m from Y Combinator), Alex Brogan (creator, 600k+ audience). And it only scratches the surface of what people are building (see screenshot). Join the community that makes success far easier and more likely. Apply now. 👉 https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav

There are 3 days till our applications close. We have over 400 applications. We believe in being the single best place to be if you are a young founder. We want to make success far easier and more likely. If that's you and you want a powerful unlock apply here: https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav

As an ambitious young founder, it can be difficult to know what to do, find mentors, and connect with like-minded others. Our mission is to change that 🚀: We want success to be far easier and more likely. We want to create the single best product to unlock young founders and entrepreneurs. We want to build the product we wish we had. To do so, we bring together the most talented young people in the world and surround them with top mentors, learnings, investment, and much more. Our intake is open, apply here 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav

Intake is open! 🚀 Apply below. We believe that you’re the average of those around you. So we’re creating an environment that makes the exceptional normal. A place where the the curious and ambitious help each other make a dent in the universe. Our members range from Max Marchione (Founder @Superpower 4m pre-seed from Balaji, Cyan Bannister, Zuckerberg), Simon Kubica (3m from Y Combinator), Richard Eve (Strategy & Product @Eucalyptus). Apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav