Have you entered the Y Combinator, raised $20 million from the A16Z and then went to Meta? I think that's cool. But has Soham Parekh applied to your job at your startup?
Now, startup founders have a new badge of honor. I'm Soham Parekh, who is close to an unknown Indian software engineer.
Silicon Valley's Anna Del Bay posted an X on Wednesday by former Mix Panel CEO Suhaildosi to alert fellow founders about Parev.
“PSA: A man named Soham Parekh (India) works at a 3-4 startup at the same time. He has won YC companies and more. Be careful,” Doshi wrote. “I fired this guy in his first week and told him to lie/stop scams. He hasn't stopped a year later.”
Currently, the post has over 20 million views and weighs it on by founders and investors across the tech industry. No, some people are just bad managers.
According to Doshi, at least three founders have reached out to them and say they have been fired or are currently employing Parekh.
In the age of Subreddit communities like R/Overmployed, this revelation isn't so surprising as members talk about how to escape multiple remote jobs at once. What's even more interesting is how much different his responses to his actions (to put it unfairly, no one says that the tech industry is known for its moral textiles).
For some in the tech community, Parekh creates folk heroes, deceives well-funded startups and sticks to men. For others, he is an immoral liar who has ruined the startup and stripped him of his job from people who would have actually given him everything. Many were impressed by how he got through so many infamous and competitive interview processes, while others believe he should take away his 15-minute fame to set up his own startup.
“If Soham says he's quickly cleaned up and he's been working on training AI agents for knowledge work, he'll raise $100 million by the weekend,” Box CEO Aaron Levie writes to X.
If Soham quickly gets clean and says he was working on training AI agents for knowledge activities, he will raise for $100 million by the weekend.
– Aaron Levie (@levie) July 2, 2025
Chris Bakke, founder of Laskie, a recruitment platform acquired by X, believes Soham should embrace his reputation.
“Soham Parekh needs to start an interview preparation company. He is clearly one of the greatest interviewers of all time,” writes Bakke. “He has to publicly admit that he's done something bad and get the course right with him being the top 1%.”
Soham Parekh needs to start an interview preparation company.
He is clearly one of the greatest interviewers of all time.
It's less stressful than the scam that was easily done by millions of people a year, working for 14 YC companies at once, and then being fired by everyone three weeks later…
– Chris Bakke (@chrisjbakke) July 2, 2025
Meanwhile, Gary Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, got the opportunity to pat herself in the back.
“Without the YC community, this guy would still be working and probably wouldn't have been caught,” Tan wrote. “YC's Startup Guild is an invention that is necessary to help founders succeed more than being alone.”
Why did he do that? Parev says this is not part of some grand plans – he insists he had no plans at all, and he was trying to make a lot of money very quickly to get out of the bad financial situation.
“I wasn't really thinking about this,” Parev said in a live interview with TBPN. “It was more of an action that was done out of despair.”
Parev did not address Dosi's claim that most of his resume was fake.
“What's interesting is some of the memes,” he said. “I'm very new to Twitter. I joined Twitter yesterday, so this was a lesson in social media in general.” (Twitter has long been known as X, of course.)
You don't need to hand it to him, but he is a pretty good poster for someone who has been on the platform for a day. One of his few posts was a response to Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn.
“I don't have LinkedIn,” replied Parekh.
As for its value, his X-header is on the money, even if he doesn't bother LinkedIn. It's a Flynn Rider meme from the Disney film “Tangled.” This is a self-righteous man trying to express his controversial opinion surrounded by knives of all sides.
There is a new term for SaaS in the market
Soham-as-a-service.
– Kishor K (@nontech_preneur) July 3, 2025
Stop contributing to Soham Parekh Slander. It's inconvenient for my colleagues because of how common the name is. My manager and intern both had the same name and had to take a break for personal reasons.
– Joowon (@n0w00j) July 2, 2025
Everyone in SF becomes polyamorous, but can't handle employee sharing?
– Troy Osinoff🕺 (@yo) July 3, 2025