04-07-2025
Indian techie faked drone strike during Op Sindoor to shirk work, claims ex-boss
Indian tech professional Soham Parekh, who has been at the centre of a row for moonlighting at multiple Silicon Valley companies, emotionally manipulated Leaping AI co-founder, Arkadiy Telegin, by invoking the India-Pakistan military conflict in May, Telegin has AI co-founder Telegin, took to X to make the claim, days after the Indian techie admitted to simultaneously working at multiple companies without claimed that Parekh misled him by pretending to be in a "conflict" area during the "India-Pakistan thing", despite actually being in Mumbai, all that while. The US-based Starup co-founder alleged that the techie "guilt-tripped" him for taking too long to get work SHARES SCREENSHOT OF HIS CHAT WITH SOHAM PAREK
"Soham used to guilt-trip me for being slow on PRs (a step in coding carried out by a coder) when the India-Pakistan thing was going on, all while he was in Mumbai. The next person should hire him for the Chief Intelligence Officer role," Telegin wrote in a post on X along with the screenshots of his chat with claimed the chat with Parekh was from the time in May when India and Pakistan were engaged in an intense military stand-off after New Delhi launched Operation Sindoor. The precise Indian strikes on terror heavens in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir resulted in Islamabad launching a barrage of missiles and drones across the international border and the Line of Control. Pakistan targeted Indian military installations and civilian sent a message to Telegin, claiming, "Drone shot down 10 minutes away". When Telegin asked about Parekh's well-being, Parekh lied that a building close to his home was damaged in the FOR 34 STARTUPS: FOUNDERSuhail Doshi, former CEO of Mixpanel, earlier posted on X alleging that Parekh was employed by "34 startups at the same time" and had deceived Y Combinator-backed firms. Y Combinator-backed firms are startups that get money, support, and advice from the startup accelerator to grow their further said he terminated Parekh within a week after discovering the overlapping founders backed up Doshi's warning, prompting one to call off Parekh's trial last week, while another disclosed they had recently interviewed him -- only to discover his involvement with multiple responded to the allegations during an interview on the tech show TBPN, openly acknowledging the truth behind the accusations."It is true," he admitted, adding, "I'm not proud of what I've done. But, you know, financial circumstances, essentially. No one really likes to work 140 hours a week, right? But I had to do this out of necessity. I was in extremely dire financial circumstances".He clarified that he personally handled all assigned work without the help of other engineers or AI PAREKH SAYS GETS NEW JOB AT DARWINSoham Parek, the India-based techie has now announced that he's joining an AI firm, Darwin, which is a new startup based in San Francisco in the however, said that, this time, he won't be taking on any additional founder and CEO, Sanjit Juneja, also issued a statement expressing confidence in Parekh's skills."Soham is an incredibly talented engineer, and we believe in his abilities to help bring our products to market," Juneja the series of allegations and controversies, Parekh on June 3 responded on his X account."I've been isolated, written off and shut out by nearly everyone I've known and every company I've worked at. But building is the only thing I've ever truly known, and it's what I'll keep doing."He confirmed that he has wrapped up all other job commitments and has now signed an exclusive deal with Darwin.- Ends
