About Paradigm Partners
Pooja Challa Gorthy
Pooja Challa Gorthy
Pooja Challa Gorthy
With over 15 years of experience running Operations and being a Chief of Staff to the Founders of an iconic early stage startup like WhatsApp, having seen it go from ideation to acquisition and scaling from 10-450 employees seamlessly, Pooja has the mastermind to put scalable processes in place and build a culture unique to each company. She calls herself a "Startup Whisperer"
Sri Gorthy
Pooja Challa Gorthy
Pooja Challa Gorthy
With over 20 years of experience working with tech companies in the United States and India like Google, Intergraph, ADP, Tata Consultancy Services and being a Founder himself for 6+ years running a company overseas, Sri comes with enormous boots on ground experience in People Operations and Business Operations with a Founder's mind.
Our Approach
Pooja Challa Gorthy
Our Approach
There can never be a "one size fits all" for startups. Our approach is to work with the Founding Team from the get go and design a framework that incorporates all realms of Operations - People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Compliance, Legal, Immigration and Culture so the team can focus solely on building their product and be worry-free regarding other aspects of running an early stage startup.
Our Services
Chief of Staff
Act as a right hand to the Founding Team on all aspects of the business, help make strategic and well thought out decisions, anticipate and avert any issues, establish a clear feedback loop in the leadership team, identify areas of improvement and improve workflow, be a liaison for internal and external stakeholders, help with board of directors meeting preparation and communication, create and maintain a healthy company culture.
Operations
Manage all aspects of office operations from real estate negotiations, physical space planning, customer services, setting up scalable processes with the right tools leading to process and budget improvement while helping envision the product and build the OKR's and KPI's in a strategic manner.
Human Resources
Streamlining hiring, compensation, long term incentives, payroll and benefits that are scalable as the company grows and evolves.
Vendor management
Identifying the most efficient and cost effective vendors for Legal, Compliance, Immigration and Accounting.
Event Management
Planning one of a kind events both big and small to cultivate company culture and celebrate important milestones.