Sagar Kapoor

About me

I'm a product builder.

Product & Platform Leader · Scaling 0→1

I find the real problem under the visible one – and build the product, and the team, that solves it.


Twenty years turning messy, high-stakes problems into products that move the business.

20+ years
building product & platforms – 15+ in leadership
0→1 to scale
from founding teams to orgs serving 6,000+ engineers
Founding teams to 70+ members
built & coached globally distributed teams
Code → boardroom
fluent from a line of code to a board-level number
At a glance
20+ years of Product leadership across
Atlassian Google Adobe VGW Atlassian Flipkart Google HealthEngine Atlassian Adobe Google Ericsson Atlassian Flipkart Google Infosys

Why Slipstream Product Builders

Closer to the business than ever.

Product management is at an inflection point – and an AI-native world has raised the stakes.

01

Features aren't outcomes

Too much product ships output in isolation from the business. What counts is revenue, retention, margin and risk – owned, not assumed.

02

AI raises the bar

When capability is cheap and speed is a given, the edge isn't more features – it's product that owns the business outcome and compounds it on a platform.

03

Scale-ups, at the juncture

Between early traction and durable scale, the cost of product drifting from the business is highest – and the window to fix it is short.

I bring two decades across organisations of every size – from 6,000-engineer platforms to 0→1 ventures – to get product closer to the business exactly when it matters most. Capability, not dependency.


Selected work

Problems I've solved.

The same pattern each time: find the layer that's actually binding, solve it, and move the number that matters.

Fractional Head of Product
Fintech startup · confidential

Product was shipping features; the business needed owned outcomes.

The problem
A scaling fintech startup where product, business and platform didn't share outcomes – value creation was abstract, the platform wasn't compounding leverage, and capacity stalled under growth. Every gap traced to one root: no shared ownership of business outcomes.
What I solved
Set a product strategy built bottom-up on business outcomes – product owning churn, CSAT and revenue, with nothing funded without a payback thesis. Rebalanced investment to stand up an ecosystem & platform stream, framed the marketplace as the moat, and defined a thin, outcome-owning operating model, hiring sequence and a 90-day execution plan.
0→30%
ecosystem-platform investment shift
80/20
payback-first funding model
90 days
to a live operating model
Head of Technical PM
Developer platform · enterprise scale

Engineering velocity was the hidden ceiling on growth.

The problem
A 6,000-engineer organisation was slowed by fragmented internal tooling with no single owner – and a culture that treated the developer platform as plumbing, not product. The real constraint was ownership and strategy, not effort.
What I solved
Took product ownership of the developer-infrastructure space, built a unified developer-experience platform across fragmented workflows, set a company-wide reliability strategy the whole suite could rally around, and grew the product team from 3 to 10 in three quarters.
~60%
fewer manual steps across the dev lifecycle
200+ yrs
of developer time saved
~$3mn/yr
cost reduced via reliability
Product Lead
Social gaming · trust & payments

A business-critical money-flow was fragmented – and leaking trust.

The problem
In a ~$2bn social gaming business, a critical redemption flow had no centralised capability, fraud was draining value, and player trust was an unmanaged business risk rather than a product.
What I solved
Centralised the money-flow, built a verification capability to choke off multi-account abuse, and shipped responsible-play features (activity reminders, self-serve limits) that treated trust as a product.
$200mn/mo
player money-flow centralised
−50%
multi-account abuse fraud
+40%
customer satisfaction
Product Lead
Healthtech · ecosystem

Growth depended on owning the ecosystem, not buying ads.

The problem
A leading health-booking platform needed durable growth. Integrations looked like a technical headache; reframed, they were the distribution and the moat – the path to the category's #1 telehealth ecosystem.
What I solved
Owned the integrations product powering bookings across thousands of practices, established a new business vertical, and turned partnerships into new revenue – putting the platform at the centre of national telehealth.
1.2mn/mo
bookings powered
6,000+
practices, 25+ integrations
#1
telehealth ecosystem in Australia

Your business has a binding layer too.

Let's find it – and solve where it actually moves your numbers. Grab a 30-minute slot that suits.