Did you get to Y Combinator, raised $ 20 million from A16Z and then went to meta? This is cool, I guess. But soham Parekh applied to work on your boot?
There is now a new price signal for booting founders: Your proximity to a previously unknown Indian software engineer called Soham Parekh.
Silicon Valley’s Anna Delvey spread on Wednesday when former Mixpanel Suhail Doshi CEO was published in X to warn colleagues founders about Parekh.
“PSA: There is a guy called Soham Parekh (in India) working in 3-4 newly established businesses at the same time. I wrote. “I put this guy on his first week and I told him to stop lying/reciting people. He’s not stopped a year later.”
Now, the position has over 20 million views, with founders and investors from all over the weighing technology industry. And before Andy Jassy asked – could everything be avoided if more companies returned to the office? No, some people are just bad managers.
According to Doshi, at least three founders came to say that they had been fired or currently employed Parekh.
In the era of the communities of subcutaneous R/OvemplyedWhere members talk about how to escape with multiple remote work at the same time, this revelation is not as amazing. What is more interesting is how widely the answers to his actions vary (to be fair, no one ever said that the technology industry was known for his moral fibers).
In some in the technological community, Parekh has the things of a popular hero, deceiving well -funded newly established businesses and sticking to the man. In others, it is an immoral liar who was screwed by the newly formed businesses and got jobs away from people who would really have given them all. Many are impressed by how he has been able to go through so many well -known competitive interview processes, while others believe that he would have to beg his 15 minutes of reputation to set up his own start.
“If Soham comes immediately clean and says he worked to train an AI agent for the work of knowledge, increases $ 100 million before the weekend”, CEO BOX AARON LEVIE I wrote In X.
Chris Bakke-the founder of Laskie, a labor match platform acquired by X-believes that Soham should embrace his reputation.
“Soham Parekh must start an interview company. He is clearly one of the greatest researchers of all time,” Bakke wrote. “He should publicly recognize that he made something bad and right in the thing that is the top 1% in.”
Meanwhile, Combinator CEO Garry Tan took the opportunity to hit himself on the back.
“Without the YC community, this guy would still work and would never be caught,” Tan wrote. “YC’s starting guild is a necessary invention to help the founders be more successful than they would be alone.”
Why did he do it? Parekh says this was not part of a big plan – he claims he had no plan and was trying to make a lot of money too fast to get out of a bad financial situation.
“I didn’t really think about it,” Parekh said in a live interview with Tbpn. “It was an action that became more than despair.”
Parekh did not face Doshi’s claim that most of his resume was fake.
“What is also funny is, you know, some of the mimics,” he said. “I’m very young on Twitter. I joined Twitter yesterday, so this was a lesson for me in social media in general.” (Twitter has long known as x, of course.)
You don’t have to deliver him, but it’s a pretty good poster for someone on the platform for a day. One of his few positions was an answer to the co -founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman, who asked what the people who believe Parekh’s Linkedin Header would be.
‘I don’t have a LinkedIn’, Parekh responded.
For what is worth it, X’s header is in money, even if it won’t bother LinkedIn. Is the memory By Flynn Rider from Disney’s film “Tangled”-a guy he showed to declare a controversial opinion surrounded by knives on all sides.
