India, July 5 -- Soham Parekh, an India-based software engineer, has made headlines after admitting to secretly working across dozens of US startups at the same time.

The controversy surfaced after entrepreneur Suhail Doshi, in a series of posts on X, called Parekh a "scammer" who had tricked several startups, including those backed by the Y Combinator accelerator.

"PSA: there's a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He's been preying on YC companies and more. Beware," San Francisco-based Suhail Doshi posted on X.

He added that Parekh worked briefly at one of his companies and was fired within his first week. It was later revealed that Parekh juggled roles at around 34 different companies, inclu...