Who Is Soham Parekh: An Engineer Who Worked for 10 YC Startups at Once
A few days ago, Sohail Doshi, founder of Playground AI, wrote a post on X (Twitter) saying he had to fire an engineer named Soham Parekh. The firing happened just one week after hiring him. Soham was working at multiple startups at the same time—without telling anyone. Sohail explained that this wasn’t some new behavior. Even after being fired for it once, Soham kept doing it again and again with other companies. This tweet quickly caught fire. Other startup founders and engineers began replying, saying they had also hired Soham and had similar experiences. Many of these companies were Y Combinator-backed startups. Turns out, Soham had been working for at least three, maybe […]
