Early July, X users have shared dozens of stories about encounters with Soham Parekh, a software engineer who seems to have been simultaneously working at multiple Silicon Valley startups. We'd discussed his whole journey, experiences and reflections in this episode. Hope you'll find it insightful.

(00:00:00) - TEASER(00:00:45) - INTRO(00:02:40) - Define Soham Parekh, Early Career(00:05:10) - Current routine and Interests(00:06:38) - Soham - a Generalist?(00:08:05) - How has been life since twitter blowout?(00:09:17) - Academics, Dropping out, Grad School(00:10:38) - Acing Tech Interviews, Open Source(00:11:44) - Curious about Low-level internals(00:14:30) - Mistakes, Tutorial hell, Interviews(00:17:12) - What was the first immediate reaction?(00:18:45) - Reaction of family and friends(00:20:10) - What were the misconceptions floating around?(00:21:15) - Dev-shop of 20 Interns?, Interviews, Contributions(00:25:03) - Did Soham give any company his 100%, working parallely?(00:27:55) - How picky Soham was choosing startups to interview?(00:29:58) - How was a typical day with peak workload?(00:31:20) - Why should anyone trust your words/work ethic?(00:32:32) - Incurred interest on integrity, Work Trials(00:35:10) - Crazy story with a startup(00:36:25) - How much Soham used Cursor/AI tools with jobs?(00:38:25) - Did Soham interview at Frontier AI Labs?(00:40:02) - Sharing MVPs among different companies?(00:42:38) - Mutual understanding/friendships with founders?(00:44:38) - Managing onboarding at multiple startups?(00:48:12) - Surviving background checks(00:49:56) - Difference between culture in SF and India (00:52:08) - Thoughts on Agentic AI space(00:58:13) - Which one startup excited Soham most?(01:01:00) - Contradictory statement in TBPN Interview, self perception now(01:02:14) - Negative stereotype reinforced for remote work(01:04:45) - What is one thing startups are completely missing now?(01:07:15) - What kind of tech product Soham will build in current era?(01:09:30) - How would Soham react with moonlighting as a CEO?(01:12:05) - What excites Soham more with current startup (Darwin)(01:14:05) - Final thoughts(01:15:21) - CHEERS!

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Soham Parekh Unplugged with Himanshu