Indian techie Soham Parekh accused by a minimum of 5 US CEOs of moonlighting: ‘Holy sh*t, we employed this man every week in the past’

“PSA: there’s a man named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups on the similar time. He’s been preying on YC corporations and extra. Beware,” San Francisco-based Suhail Doshi posted on X yesterday. He added that Parekh had labored briefly at certainly one of his corporations final yr earlier than his duplicity got here to mild and he was fired inside his first week.

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The allegations towards Soham Parekh

Since then, a minimum of 5 different corporations have come ahead to accuse Soham Parekh of scamming them. Many agreed that he got here throughout as educated in his interviews and managed to idiot them initially.

Flo Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy, stated that he had employed Soham Parekh every week in the past and acknowledged that he did “extremely nicely” in interviews.

“Holy sh*t. We employed this man every week in the past. Fired this morning. He did so extremely nicely in interviews, should have lots of coaching. Careful on the market,” Crivello wrote.

Crivello shared notes from Parekh’s interview the place the Indian techie talked about that he had left Antimetal because of time zone variations and since it was “turning right into a finops firm” and he wasn’t positive he wished to be part of it.

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Reactions from the tech group

Antimetal CEO Matthew Parkhurst additionally confirmed that Soham Parekh had labored for them. He described Parekh as “actually good” however stated he was fired for working at a number of different corporations.

“Funnily sufficient, Soham was our first engineering rent in 2022. Really good and likable; loved working with him,” Matthew stated on X. “We realized fairly shortly that he was working at a number of corporations and let him go.”

“Hiring Soham is a brand new ceremony of passage tbh. Any nice firm ought to undergo it,” the CEO of Antimetal joked.

Nicolai Ouporov, co-founder and CEO of Fleet AI, additionally confirmed that Parekh works at a number of startups at any given time. Parekh’s CV – shared publicly by Suhail Doshi – lists Fleet AI as one of many corporations the place he has labored.

Adish Jain, the San Francisco-based founding father of Mosaic, additionally ‘confirmed’ Doshi’s account. He additionally stated that Soham Parekh did “nice” in interviews.

Michelle Lim, head of product at Warp, stated that Parekh had been employed for a piece trial earlier than the allegations got here to mild. The trial has now been cancelled, Lim stated.

Soham Parekh responds

Soham Parekh, the person on the centre of this storm, has not addressed the fallout publicly. However, based on Doshi, he reached out to him in personal.

Doshi shared the gist of what Parekh advised him, which amounted to the Indian techie expressing remorse.

“Asking this as real recommendation since I do actually love what I do, have I fully sabotaged my profession? What can I do to enhance my scenario? I’m additionally completely happy to return clear,” Parekh advised Doshi.

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