Everyone In Tech Has An Opinion About Soham Parekh
After investing in Y Combinator and raising $20 million from A16Z, you left to join Meta? Well, it is cool. However, did Soham Parekh submit an application to work for your startup? Being close to Soham Parekh, an Indian software programmer who was previously unknown, has become a new badge of pride for company founders. Suhail Doshi, the former CEO of Mixpanel, exposed Silicon Valley’s Anna Delvey on Wednesday by warning fellow founders about Parekh in a post on X. PSA: Soham Parekh is an Indian man who works at three or four businesses concurrently. He has been taking advantage of YC businesses and others. “Take caution,” Doshi wrote. “I instructed this guy to quit lying and defrauding people, and I dismissed him in his first week. Even after a year, he has not stopped. Founders and investors from all around the IT sector have commented on the piece, which has now had over 20 million views. Before Andy Jassy wonders, is it possible that all of this could have been prevented had more businesses gone back to work? No, some individuals are simply poor managers. Doshi claims that at least three founders had contacted him to inform him that Parekh was either currently employed by them or had been sacked. Parekh is viewed by some in the IT sector as a folk hero for defrauding well-funded firms and sticking it to the man. Others view him as a dishonest liar who destroyed startups and fired employees who genuinely wanted to work hard. While some believe he should use his brief moment of fame to launch his own firm, many are impressed by how he was able to pass so many infamously difficult interview processes. “Soham will raise $100 million before the weekend if he comes clean and admits he was working to train an AI agent for knowledge work,” Box CEO Aaron Levie said on X. Soham can earn $100 million before the weekend if he comes clean right away and admits that he was training an AI agent for his work. According to Chris Bakke, the creator of Laskie, a job-matching website that X purchased, Soham ought to take pride in his reputation. […]