How do you scale your startup from three to thirty to three hundred people without losing sight of your company’s culture, values, and mission? When do you bring in specialists, put in processes at your startup?

In this episode of The Orbit Shift Podcast HR leader and CHRO of Freshworks Suman Gopalan talks about how a company can scale its people function, how to set up an HR function from scratch and scale it as your company scales, how to avoid conflicts between new recruits and the old guard, and how to retain your company's culture and manage employees in a remote post-pandemic workplace. 

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About the Guest

Suman Gopalan is the Chief Human Resource Officer of Freshworks. She has more than two decades of experience in various human resource functions. She spent ten years in various HR roles including Executive Director HR at Dell. She was also the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at The Nielsen Company. Suman has graduated from XLRI, Jamshedpur with an MBA in Human Resources Management.
 

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Host and Producer - Jayadevan PK

Assistant Producer - Shashwath J

Audio Engineer - Rajesh Subramanian