Author
Deepti Gupta
Founder, Sageo · Fractional CHRO · People Strategist
I am a global HR leader with 18+ years building people strategy for high-growth tech and product companies. My career spans Freshworks, Dream11, Myntra, and a number of early-stage startups I helped build from the ground up.
I have partnered directly with founders and CXOs across India, the US, the UK, Germany, and Australia — at 30 people, at 300, and at 3,000. Every engagement has reinforced the same belief: the people infrastructure you build in your first few years of scale determines whether growth makes you stronger or breaks you.
I started Sageo because too many founders are navigating growth with the wrong people infrastructure. I fix that — directly, practically, and without the overhead.
Expertise
What I work on
Talent Density
Building and maintaining teams where every hire raises the bar
Performance Culture
Systems that drive accountability from day one
Organisation Design
Structuring teams for scale before growth breaks them
Fractional CHRO
Embedded people leadership without the full-time overhead
Compensation Frameworks
Defensible, equitable pay structures built before pressure hits
AI-Enabled HR
Using AI to reduce people ops overhead while maintaining quality
Career
18+ years inside high-growth companies
Sageo
2024 — Present
Founder & Principal Consultant
Strategic people consulting for founders and leadership teams at high-growth companies. Fractional CHRO, structured sprints, and leadership coaching.
Freshworks
2017 — 2022
VP People
Led global HR operations across 5 continents through hypergrowth, IPO preparation, and organisational scale.
Dream11
2015 — 2017
Head of People
Scaled the tech and product organisation from 100 to 700 people. Built performance systems, org design, and hiring infrastructure from scratch.
Myntra
2012 — 2015
People & Operations
Senior people leadership through Myntra's high-growth phase, including Flipkart acquisition.
Pipemonk
2010 — 2012
People & Operations
Built the people and operations function at an early-stage startup, through to acquisition by Freshworks.
Writing
Practical thinking on people strategy
I write about the people challenges that matter most to founders and leadership teams building high-growth companies.
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