India, Dec. 3 -- A Silicon Valley software engineer has revealed that he used a picture of a blonde woman as his profile pic to score party invites. Ali Shobeiri, a member of the technical staff at AI startup Perplexity, said that having a woman's picture helped him get more party invites.

He made this revelation while responding to an X user who changed his profile picture to that of a woman in a social experiment to see if it would get him more followers.

Ali Shobeiri is an Iranian man who grew up in Canada. He later moved to the United States, working at companies like Apple and Microsoft before joining Perplexity.

In his X post, Shobeiri revealed that he would use a blonde woman's photo as his profile pic on the Partiful app. Parti...