Soham Parekh: The Mumbai coder who outsmarted Silicon Valley — until he didn’t
The 26-year-old, who gave some 40 interviews and held multiple jobs at top startups, has taken moonlighting to a whole new level
If you’ve been a Y Combinator founder — part of Silicon Valley’s startup accelerator ecosystem— over the past two years, chances are you’ve received an email from Soham Parekh. Maybe you hired him. Maybe you fired him. Maybe you’re still not sure if he’s even real.
