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• Soham Parekh confirmed on a podcast that he worked for multiple AI startups simultaneously.
• Multiple founders told BI that they had hired him before realizing he was also working other jobs.
• Parekh told the "TBPN" podcast he worked 140 hours a week and was in "dire financial circumstances."

A seemingly overemployed engineer has sparked a round of memes and self-reflection in tech this week.

Indian software engineer, Soham Parekh, was accused online by a founder this week of working at three to four startups simultaneously. The founder's X post set off a firestorm in the industry, with other founders chiming in to say they, too, hired — and fired — him.

Parekh appeared on the tech podcast "TBPN" on Thursday and confirmed he had juggled multiple jobs.

"I wanna preface by saying that I'm not proud of what I've done. That's not something that I endorse either," Parekh said. "No one really likes to work 140 hours a week, but I had to do this kind of out of necessity. I was in extremely dire financial circumstances."

Parekh spoke to "TBPN" hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays about why he chose to work for multiple startups at the same time and how he got hired.

On the podcast, he referred to himself as a "serial non-sleeper." He said that he did not hire a team of junior engineers to help him accomplish tasks at various jobs or use AI to get the work done. He said on the podcast that he worked for many of the companies prior to the boom in AI-assisted programming.

"This was not a business to me. Every company that I've worked with, I deeply cared about," Parekh added.Parekh did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

The brouhaha started when Suhail Doshi, the founder of Playground AI, posted on X on Tuesday about a former software engineer who he said previously worked for his company. He accused Parekh of moonlighting for multiple startups.

Founders of multiple companies confirmed with BI that a man named Soham Parekh had worked for or interviewed with them. Several said they quickly realized he was overemployed and let him go.

Parekh did not discuss being fired on the podcast.

Igor Zalutski, the CEO of Digger, told BI that Parekh passed his interviews "with flying colors" and said the company was "super excited for him to start" before the hiring process was halted on June 30 because of a background check issue. He did not elaborate on the specifics.

"I think he's genuinely a brilliant engineer," Zalutski said, adding, "Soham seemed clearly one of the top 0.1%; anyone can learn to do coding puzzles, but very few can do technical problem solving entirely in their head, while keeping the user and business in mind."

Kevin Wu, the founder and CEO of Leaping AI, told BI that Parekh was employed by the company briefly, but was let go for "his underperformance on the job" and after they found out he was employed by other startups.

A spokesperson for Synthesia also confirmed to BI that Parekh was briefly employed at the company and said that part of the reason he was let go was that it suspected he was working other jobs.

Matt Parkhurst, the CEO of Antimetal, wrote on X that Parekh is "really smart and likable," but he was let go after the company found out about his other jobs. Antimetal did not immediately respond to a request for further information.

Though the timeline of when Parekh worked at which company is not entirely clear, a June 2021 blog post by Meta shows that Parekh was a WebXR contributor working on immersive AR/VR examples through the Major League Hacking (MLH) Fellowship at that time.

In California, where most of these startups are based, there is no law against working for multiple companies simultaneously, even if they are competitors. It's unclear what Parekh had agreed to in his contracts.

His job-juggling has sparked discussion around the phenomenon of similar overemployment.

"There are 1000s of Soham Parekhs we don't know about," Deedy Das, a principal at Menlo Ventures focused on AI investments, wrote on X. "To be clear, this is a complete non-issue if your employment contract is okay with it."

Overemployment grew in popularity during the pandemic, when some workers took advantage of fully remote opportunities to rake in multiple six-figure salaries.

Tech leaders chimed in to offer thoughts, jokes, and memes about the situation. Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn founder, mused on X, "What do you think Soham Parekh's LinkedIn header is?"

Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, said in a post Wednesday, "If soham immediately comes clean and says he was working to train an AI Agent for knowledge work, he raises at $100M pre by the weekend."

The memes keep coming, including one shared by Flo Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy, a San Francisco-based AI company, with a nod to "The Social Network."

The meme read: "You can't get to 500 million jobs without making a few enemies."

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• Jason Noel is the CTO for EY's Americas Consulting division.
• Noel told BI how the firm is helping companies think through AI adoption this year.
• The firm is focusing on the "convergence of digital and human workforces," he said.

The rhetoric around AI in the workplace can be vague: Automation, algorithms, productivity, efficiency, decision-making, up-skilling, the list goes on.

Between rapid technological progress and the lag of adoption, there's continued uncertainty about how AI will reshape the future of work.

Many employees are anxious about their value, for instance. Executives are at once captivated by the potential for profits and worried about keeping up with their competitors. Investors and company boards are frustrated by the losses they've already incurred from not moving fast enough.

Consulting firms are often at the heart of it all. From the outset, at least, they've positioned themselves as the go-to experts to help corporations understand and navigate this latest wave of technology.

Yet their work can often be as unclear as the technology itself. To demystify it, Business Insider spoke to EY's new chief technology officer for its Americas Consulting division on what AI really means for workers in 2025.

First off, are people losing jobs anytime soon?

There have been comments about cataclysmic unemployment rates that are gonna plunge us into the next Great Depression. I mean, I think it's interesting to think about those alternatives. It's just not what I'm seeing.

Broadly speaking, what can we expect to see from AI integration in the next year?

I think over the next year, you're going to see an increasing uptake in these copilots, these tools like the ChatGPTs and the private and public models, and interjecting some AI capability into existing enterprise applications, and increasing productivity and efficiency.

How is EY specifically helping clients integrate AI this year?

We're thinking a lot about what we're calling the next generation of enterprise applications — interfaces that present people with what they need based on their role, offer key AI insights, and let them act. The AI agents generate suggestions, and the human validates and approves.

We're piloting this now with some major clients, and it's been an incredible success. That's how we're thinking about the convergence of digital and human workforces — not just managing them together, but creating systems where AI augments people in a seamless way.

Can you provide an example of these applications in action?

If I'm a cruise director on a cruise ship, there are lots of things that impact how my guests enjoy the ship.

The makeup of the people on the ship, the weather, what day — if you're on a day at sea, or if you're going to a port — all of that stuff. There's data to be found there on what happens and how the guests behave. I mean like their buying activities, where they like to hang out, those types of things.

So, we can harness that information with AI agents to actually understand and predict what's going to happen. We know, for example, that tomorrow's weather is going to be bad, and it's a day at sea. We know historically how all of that affects the movement of people and the consumption of products, whether that be merchandise, food, or beverages.

So, we recommend that you take half of the people from this venue and move them to this venue. We recommend moving around products so you don't run out, because we know what demand is going to look like. We recommend redeploying people to do different things in anticipation of this. The AI will turn around and list out and build out that process automatically.

The human in the loop says, "Okay, that makes sense," or "I want to change this piece."

This is through a very visual, nice interface. They click go, and then there's a chain of orchestration that happens, in which people are notified, leadership is notified, supply chain changes on the ship.

What's the value of up-skilling here? How much do employees need to learn about AI?

They just know that they have a screen and an application that says, "Here's how much stuff you have now of this," and "Here's how many you have coming inbound," maybe. They don't need to know how the technology works. This idea of up-skilling the entire workforce to use AI — I think it's kind of silly.

How are you helping companies think through questions like this?

You need to look at the functions — rethink that. That also dovetails into the people part, right? You're not only just giving them technology that's AI-enabled, you're allowing them to start to rethink how they do their job, and how they can be more efficient at the job, and also provide more overall value and capability.

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• "Love Island USA" is a reality TV series where contestants aim to build connections and find love.
• Last night, the islanders got to see what America thinks of them.
• Amaya Espinal, 25, was a clear fan favorite, highlighted for her trustworthiness and authenticity.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard or seen someone talking about season seven of "Love Island USA."

You know, the show where a bunch of 20-somethings occupy a villa in Fiji without contact with the outside world for weeks on end in the hopes of finding love. Oh, and winning the $100,000 cash prize.

Unlike seasons past, where the prize has seemed to be an afterthought for contestants, this year's islanders seem to be "hyper-aware of their role as entertainers and competitors," Business Insider's Callie Ahlgrim assessed, adding that they're "much too preoccupied with how they're being perceived by an invisible audience to be truly honest and vulnerable with each other."

But just because they're aware America is watching doesn't necessarily mean they're truly self-aware, or have a grasp on how the audience will feel about them — at least until some of the viewer votes start rolling in and actually affect their experience.

That was made especially clear in last night's episode as the audience rallied around fan-favorite Amaya Espinal, fondly known as "Amaya Papaya."

Amaya has received criticism from her fellow islanders

Amaya has been critiqued by her fellow islanders throughout her "Love Island" experience for being "too emotional and affectionate," but her peers finally got to see just how much America's been rooting for her in a challenge called "Hate to Burst Your Bubble."

In the game, contestants were asked to assess fellow islanders based on categories like "Most Trustworthy" and "Most Genuine" and rank each other from most to least. Then, they'd see how America answered the same questions.

When asked to rank the women from most to least trustworthy, the men ranked Amaya third to last. America, however, ranked her first, as the most trustworthy, prompting a raised eyebrow from her former connection, Ace Greene, who commented, "That wasn't in my parlay."

Although Ace and Amaya were previously coupled up, their pairing was a contentious one, filled with miscommunications and tension. A particularly notable exchange that's reverberated throughout the season centered around Ace telling Amaya he wasn't comfortable being called "babe" so quickly. When she tried to explain that she "calls everyone babe," she slipped up and called him the pet name in the process.

Her subsequent connections, Austin Shepard and Zak Srakaew, also expressed similar sentiments in the recent "Stand on Business" challenge.

For the next category, the men ranked Amaya as the second-most genuine, and America voted her first again.

This challenge showed the cast what the viewers see

Finally seeming to catch on to Amaya's popularity with viewers, the islanders collectively ranked her and her connection, Zak, as the couple the audience would most like to go on vacation with, and, unsurprisingly, they were right.

As a viewer who voted for Amaya as one of my favorite islanders, I hope this challenge served as a seemingly much-needed confidence boost for her to continue being her authentic self in her search for love, and a reminder to the other islanders that authenticity — not strategy — is the strength of "Love Island."

• The Ukrainian military said it carried out a drone attack on a Russian weapons-making facility.
• The attack on Friday hit a site that produces warheads for Russia's notorious Shahed drones.
• It marks Ukraine's latest deep-strike operation targeting Russia's war machine.

The Ukrainian military said on Friday that it carried out a long-range attack on a Russian factory producing warheads for Moscow's deadly Shahed drones, marking Kyiv's latest deep-strike operation targeting the Kremlin's war machine.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said it targeted the JSC FNPC Research Institute of Applied Chemistry in Sergiev Posad, a city just northeast of Moscow, more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) away from Ukraine's border.

The attack was carried out by units of the Unmanned Systems Forces and other elements of the military. The USF, a first-of-its-kind branch of the armed forces that was established last year and focuses solely on drone combat, said soldiers of the 14th separate drone regiment were involved in the operation.

The USF said at least one drone struck the facility, causing a fire and heavy smoke, and that an electric substation that provided power to the site was damaged. It shared footage purporting to show the moment of the attack and the aftermath.

Business Insider could not independently verify all the details of the operation. Russia's defense ministry did not acknowledge the attack, although it did report shooting down Ukrainian drones over Russian territory on Friday.

Ukraine said the JSC FNPC Research Institute of Applied Chemistry, part of Russia's state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec, is under international sanctions because of its involvement in the war. The facility develops and manufactures parts for missile and artillery systems, as well as thermobaric warheads for Shahed drones.

The notorious Shahed-136 is an Iranian-designed drone that Russia now produces at home. Historically, these one-way attack munitions could fly at speeds of over 115 mph with a nearly 90-pound explosive warhead, although the team leader for a Ukrainian mobile air defense unit recently told BI that Moscow had modified the Shaheds to make them faster and deadlier.

Shahed drones are traditionally slower and less lethal than cruise or ballistic missiles, although they are much cheaper, allowing Russia to launch hundreds of them in large-scale attacks. On Thursday night, for instance, Moscow launched at least 330 of them into Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

That attack marked one of the largest Russian bombardments of the war. Ukraine said that Moscow launched 550 munitions, including Shaheds, decoy drones, and cruise and ballistic missiles, mainly targeting the capital city, Kyiv. A majority of the threats were intercepted, although at least 23 people were injured.

The attack came as the Trump administration reportedly halted shipments of crucial weapons, including air defense ammunition, to Ukraine. The move could affect Kyiv's ability to protect itself from the Russian bombardments, which have intensified in recent weeks.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump remains entangled in efforts to secure a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, and discussed peace talks in a call with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, shortly before the huge attack on Thursday.

"Notably, the first air raid alerts in our cities and regions yesterday began to blare almost simultaneously with media reports discussing a phone call between President Trump and Putin," Zelenskyy said.

• EU leaders are pushing for mass drone production in the face of growing threats.
• Europe's slow military mobilization leaves it vulnerable to future conflicts.
• Ukraine's drone success highlights the need for EU collaboration and innovation.

As the prospect of a renewed Russian threat looms over Europe's eastern flank, EU leaders are accepting that the continent is ill-prepared when it comes to the risk of future conflict.

Last week, Andrius Kubilius, the European commissioner for defence and space, called for a sweeping ramp-up of drone production, urging EU nations to produce millions of drones a year by 2030.

Ukraine delivered over 1.3 million drones to its military in 2024, highlighting the gap in Europe's preparedness.

"The fact that European nations need to urgently rearm, and to do so in a way that is relevant to the threat from Russia, is not a new discovery," Keir Giles, senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, told Business Insider.

"What's alarming is that it's being presented as news," he said, adding that this suggests the realization that rearmament is vital "still hasn't sunk in evenly across Europe."

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the transformative nature of drones in modern combat.

From cheap first-person view drones to advanced loitering munitions and AI-guided strike systems, the war has pioneered new forms of drone warfare, with Ukraine often outmatching Russian capabilities in speed and creativity.

Katja Bego, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, said that "Ukraine's remarkable success with drones has shown it is possible to rapidly ramp up production if the urgency is there. Europe is now learning these lessons."

Currently, however, the EU is still far behind. Both Russia and Ukraine reportedly outproduce the entire EU bloc "by orders of magnitude," Bego warned.

But it's clear that there is increasing interest from EU states to work with and import Ukrainian expertise and systems.

"If European countries are serious about acquiring drones at the pace and scale that is being described, they must do so in and with Ukraine," Giles said.

The latest push for mass drone manufacturing in Europe isn't just about meeting current threats. It's about leapfrogging into the technologies that will define future conflict.

"Europe sees an opportunity to leapfrog," Bego said. "Smaller drones are much cheaper than a lot of traditional weapons and can be produced much more quickly."

However, making the most of this moment requires more than just factories.

"Getting to the scale of relevance for deterrence and defense is more than an issue of defense production," Skip Davis, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, told Business Insider.

"It's about the ability to field prototypes, train operators, revise operational concepts, and integrate drones into logistics and manoeuvre formations," he said. "All of that requires a new mindset."

That would involve deeper collaboration between militaries and agile, often non-traditional tech firms.

Davis said that in the current environment, "many of the companies leading innovation are small startups or commercial companies not used to working with militaries."

For Europe to succeed, he said it must grow more comfortable with experimentation and iteration.

Compounding the urgency is the decreasing estimate of when Russia could be ready to attack a NATO country.

The estimate of five years was what we were hearing this time last year, Giles said. "Since then, the timescale has continued to shrink — and the reduction in US support to Ukraine brings the time closer."

This shortening horizon makes the EU's slow progress all the more dangerous.

"Crash rearmament is feasible, if there is sufficient political will," Giles added.

At the same time, experts warn that ramping up drone output is not a silver bullet.

"Policymakers are at risk of seeing small agile drones as a panacea which will solve both their financial and manpower woes," Bego said. But "there is still a need for large platforms like jet fighters, too," she added.

Meanwhile, Europe's vision of "strategic autonomy" in defense risks being undermined by its reliance on foreign tech.

"A lot of critical components in drone manufacturing are still produced in China," Bego said. "Europe must diversify these supply chains or reproduce them within its own borders."

With the clock ticking and Russian production accelerating, the EU's ambitious drone target looks ever more necessary, and could mark a pivotal moment in European defense.

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