Soham Parekh is the overnight social media hit after being accused of keeping jobs at several American startups at the same time. The controversy broke out when Suhail Doshi, the co-founder and former CEO of the analytics company Mixpanel, alleged Parekh was ‘scamming’ companies by keeping jobs at three to four startups.
San Francisco-based Doshi exposed that during Parekh’s employment at one of his companies, he found the engineer was also getting paid by at least three or four other startups. Five additional US startups have since made similar complaints, according to reports, which indicate the number could be even greater.
Not surprisingly, word that an Indian remote employee was able to allegedly scam several well-known, well-heeled startups quickly became memes. On X (previously Twitter), the ‘Soham Parekh’ scandal created a tidal wave of memes.
Not a joke. This is happening real time. This is the 3rd DM today about someone firing him.
soham-gate pic.twitter.com/Ize0JgN4IG
— Suhail (@Suhail) July 2, 2025
Indeed, the subject soon began trending on social media websites and even landed as a top-search term on Google Trends. Even LinkedIn’s CEO couldn’t resist getting in on the action, demonstrating just how much the story has caught on across the internet.
What do you think Soham Parekh’s LinkedIn header is?
— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) July 2, 2025
Guys we found Soham Parekh! pic.twitter.com/bWnODxbM8l
— Satwik Singh (@itsmesatwik_) July 3, 2025
Must suck being an unemployed software engineer and realizing that Soham Parekh has been hired 79 times in the past 4 years
— Austen Allred (@Austen) July 2, 2025
Microsoft just laid off 9,000 workers. All of them Soham Parekh
— Daniel (@growing_daniel) July 2, 2025
POV: you’re Soham Parekh about to check in for the day pic.twitter.com/Dzn2nZ9JYb
— VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 (@VCBrags) July 2, 2025
But who is Soham Parekh, exactly? As per a CV posted by Suhail Doshi on X, Parekh is a software engineer who studied his bachelor’s degree at the University of Mumbai and then did a master’s at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His CV also mentions past employment at Dynamo AI, Union AI, Synthesia, and Alan AI.
