In the last week, social media users share many stories about Soham Parekh encounters, which are not related to Silicon companies – in the last many years.
But who is Pegekh, how did he get his career as a serial moonlamighter, and why is silicon valley not enough?
Voralidad Origins
Saga begins at Shail Doshi – CEO at the start of the image Playground ai – shared a Post Tuesday X It begins:
Doshi admits that, almost a year later, he fired Pirekh from Playground Ai after he knew he was working with other companies. “(I) told her to stop lying / scamming people. She had never stopped a year later,” Doshi’s letter.
The post from Doshi received nearly 20 million views and prompted many other builders to share their run-in with Parekh.
Flow Crivello, the CEO of LindyA start helping people automate their workflows in AI, say He hired permekh in recent weeksBut he was fired at the light of Doshi’s tweet.
Matt Parkhurst, the CEO of AntimetalA start doing automatic cloud management, verifies that parekh is the company’s first rental engineering In 2022. Parkhurst tells TechCrunch that Parimetal will allow Parekh to get ahead of 2023 after they know he has a moonlight.
Parekh as well as working in Sync LabsA start making a AI tool synching on AI, where he even stared at a video promotion. Finally he will be released.
At some point, Parekh applied to many convinator-backed startups. Haz hubble, the co-founder of PALLY AIA Commbrian who supports the start of a “AI platform of AI,” he said Offered to parekh a formula role in engineer. Idish Jain, YC-backed co-founder Mosaic – an AI Video Editing Startup – says he Interviewed Parekh for a role too.
TechCrunch has reached these companies for commentary, but they did not immediately respond.
It is agreed that Parekh did most of these interviews and received offers, mostly because he was an experienced software engineer.
For example, Rohan Pandeyan insurer of research engineer at the beginning of YC support watchtold the techcrunch he interviewed Parekh for a role and he was a strong candidate. Pandey, who is out of the beginning, like Parekh is one of the top three performers in an interview that focuses on candidates.
Pandey says the reworked team suspected something out of parkh. At the time, Parekh told again he was in the US – a necessity for work – but the company did not believe him. they Runs an IP logger to a zoom link from Parekh and he is located in India.
Pandey recalls other things Parekh said often did not add, and some of his contributions and first roles were also unreasonable. Seems to be a common experience in dealing with parekh.
Adam SilvermanCo-founder at AI AG AG Agugo sponstuvalpupuptiva, Agency, told the techcrunch his company also interviewed Parekh. Pililverman said Parekh sent him a cold DM about an opening at the agency’s job, and they set up a meeting. Parekh should reschedule to meet five times, according to Silverman and emails from Parekh to be viewed in TechCrunch.
Silverman said he also admired Parekh’s technical ability, but in the interview, he forced to work away. Like Roswrd again, that’s a red flag for the agency.
Roy Lee, the CEO of “Cheating Everything” AI Starts, Important, told the techcrunch he interviewed Parekh twice for a paper. Lee said the interviews of parekh and “seems to have a strong reaction knowledge,” discussing a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Lee says obviously didn’t end the hiring of parekh. However many companies clearly have been done.
Parekh’s
Parekh provides an appearance in the network network of technology (TBPN) On Thursday to tell the co-host colleagues John Coogan and Jordi runs on his part of the story and explain why he works with many companies.
He admitted that he was working on many jobs together since 2022. Parekh claimed he was not used AI engineers to help him with his work.
All the work made of parekh is a much better programmer, he believes, but it is noted that it is removed.
Parekh said he was famous for his friends not sleeping. She has repeatedly repeated all the interviews she worked 140 hours a week, going out for 20 hours a day, seven days a week. It seems that borderline is impossible – or at least, more bad and unstable.
Parekh also said he took many jobs because he was in “financial risk,” which means that he needs all the income from different employers. He admits that he has dismissed the graduate school program he accepted, and in turn decided to work in many starts together.
Especially, Doshi shared a Copy of Parekh’s resumé That claims that he received a Masters degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.
To ask the TBPN co-hosts why not just asking a company to raise his salary and assistance with his financial struggle, Parekh says he wants to keep a boundary with his professional and private life. .
Parekh told the hosts that he truly loved his job, and it wasn’t just about money. He said he was invested in missions to all companies where he worked.
He also admitted that he was not proud of what he did, and he did not trust it.
What’s today?
Others call Katch a scam artist and a liar, but in the classic fashion of Silicon Valley, Parekh appeared to seek his virus.
Parekh announced his newest employer, which he claimed exclusively working on: Darwin studiosA Startup working on AI video remixing.
However, parekh Quickly deleted the post after announcing thisAs the builder and CEO did at the beginning, Sanjit Hunyoja.
TechCrunch has reached permekh asking an interview about this article, however, he has not received yet. Instead, a spokesman represents him sent Techcrunch a statement from the CEO of Darwin.
“Soham is a wonderful talented engineer and we believe in his abilities that help bring our products to the market,” Juneja said.
We see countless starting starts, often controversial, moments of businesses last year. One of the most famous clearly, known to make provocative sales campaigns. This bust of chisel, but it’s attention claim, and it’s enough to put a $ 15 million seed circle from Andreessen Horowitz.
Perhaps Parekh will land in a similar fate in the future.
Update: This story is updated to display the current TBPN name and include additional comments from antimetal.
