Why Is Soham Parekh Trending On Social Media?

By Surbhi Kaul

Why Is Soham Parekh Trending On Social Media?

Soham Parekh has become an overnight sensation on social media after being accused of simultaneously working for multiple American startups. Suhail Doshi, co-founder and former CEO of analytics platform Mixpanel, alleged that the Indian tech professional has been 鈥渟camming鈥 companies by holding jobs at three to four startups at the same time. Once the allegations surfaced, 鈥淪oham Parekh鈥 began trending across social media platforms and even appeared as a top search term on Google Trends. Netizens flooded timelines with memes, turning the incident into a viral online spectacle. Even LinkedIn鈥檚 CEO joined in on the meme fest. Check out the memes here 鈥 Doshi, based in San Francisco, revealed that while Parekh was on the payroll at one of his companies, he was concurrently working with at least three or four other startups. Since then, five more U.S.-based startups have come forward with similar accusations, and the actual number might be even higher. Naturally, the revelation that a remote Indian worker managed to deceive several well-funded, high-profile startups became prime material for meme creators. On X (formerly Twitter), the Soham Parekh saga ignited a meme storm like never before. But who exactly is Soham Parekh? According to a CV shared by Suhail Doshi on X, Parekh is a software engineer with a bachelor鈥檚 degree from the University of Mumbai and a master鈥檚 degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The document also lists his previous employers as Dynamo AI, Union AI, Synthesia, and Alan AI.

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