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Would necessarily want to be famous. No. No. Is this a real picture of him? Do we know or. But this is from Var Epsilon says breaking Meta OpenAI Anthropic and Google have signed Soham Parikh as fractional Chief AI Officer. Obviously a joke, but he's been on the timeline all day because apparently he's been working at multiple YC companies. Multiple companies at the same time. What's funny is that we were. We were working on a. During the show, we were working on a post. We couldn't decide how to frame the trade deal of Soham and so some fan just did it for us. Happenstance. Fully sent it. So Matt Parker from Anti Metal was actually. Soham was their first engineering hire in 2022. Really smart and likable. Enjoyed working with him. We realized pretty quickly that he was working at multiple companies and we let him go. I can't imagine the amount of equity he's left on the table. Matt says hiring Soham is a new rite of passage. Tbh. Any great company should go through it. So Suhail was the first person to call this out. He said this morning. Or actually it was last night. So this has been building psa. There's a guy named Soham Parikh in India who works at three to four startups at the same time. He's been preying on YC companies and more. Gary is not gonna be happy about this. You do not. You don't wanna put up the bat. You don't want Gary people to put up the Gary sign. Nope. You don't wanna go up against. But apparently he's dorking on YC companies. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying, scamming people. Oh, this is fascinating. Did you see this from Pratika Meta. Tyler put this in. You want to read this one first? He's been all over the place. Roy said, I interviewed this guy yesterday. No way. That's amazing. Tyler, break it down for us. What does Pratika have to say? Okay, so apparently, I mean, this is still unconfirmed. I've actually. I've sent him an email. Okay. I obtained his email. I'm not sure if it's the real one. We'll see. But she says the dude clears interviews. He's good with that. After clearing, he has junior people doing all the work and he has around 20 employees and interns. Basically a small dev shop. Wow. So he's just figured out the economics of like, hey, If I'm making 200k or 300k. He's basically signing people to a 20k a month retainer. He knows he's going to have some churn, but it doesn't matter. He's picking up some equity. This is fascinating. Equity comp as well. I wonder if he's vested. I wonder if he's. I wonder if he's vested some shares. On the balance sheet at any of these companies. Ken Watana says Soham Parikh is the best. Bonnie Blue of YC very vulgar. SAR says all recruiting must stop until we get Soham on TBPN to figure out what is going on. Open invite to Soham we'll talk about. Santiago says Soham on TBPN when Daniel growing Daniel says Microsoft just laid out. Here we go. Laid off 9,000 workers, all of them. So Humphrey, I wonder if so Humphrey. In their inbox, it's time to start polishing your resume. Because he hasn't reached out, it means he's not bullish on you. Austin Allred says, must suck being an unemployed software engineer and realizing that Soham Parikh has been hired 79 times in the past four years. And then Matthew Berman says, oh, you think AI is killing software jobs? Tell that to Soham Parikh. Signal says, not now, honey. There is a Soham gate happening on X. It is really funny. It's basically say, I'm going to build a dev shop, but it's going to be my name and I'm, you know, he probably, no, he probably could have had a just very successful dev shop. Yeah, yeah, but, but, but there's a stigma around hiring dev shops. You want to hire founding engineers. Like, you know, the title matters and the idea like, okay, we have a full time employee, we got somebody who's delivering, they're a high performer. Our team is cracked. We don't have to outsource the whole thing with Uber. Remember, Uber's initial build out was all outsourced and it was like, it was like a mark on the company. Obviously it didn't affect them. They went on run. It was fantastic. But there's this, there's this idea of like if you're building a startup, you need, the founders need to be coding, the employees need to be coding, needs to be handcrafted. Can't outsource. But you know, he's proven us all wrong, I guess. True. So we're working on getting him live. We got another post here from Growing Daniel. Has he gotten back to you? Tyler on email? It seems like he might not come on today, but maybe we can pitch him and try to get him on. Hasn't got back. I sent it 20 minutes ago. Okay. Yeah. No, I think he needs to come out and he's sorry. He needs to come out and say he's sorry. Yeah. And he needs to say this is the right time to launch his dev shop. Yeah. Yeah. And it should be called the dev shop of Soham Parikh. Yes. Because, I mean, I don't know, maybe he's delivering, but growing. Daniel has a post here. Chief of staff. Brings lists of applicants. Really likes this one. Indian guy asks if it's a rune or a Soham she doesn't understand. Pull out illustrated diagram explaining the difference between runes and.

And enterprise levels. It's basically rewiring companies from the inside. And it is changing consumer behavior like nothing else before. Right? So coming back to your point, now you can take the slow route. You can say like, okay, well, let's do rotoscoping. But the tiny studio down the street that used to probably just create frames for you up until last year is now going to start releasing stuff that looks kind of as good as yours and now. But they can do, like, you know, at a fast clip and they're releasing like, you know, weekly episodes and iterating on it. And how long will it take before their IP is actually bigger than yours? Yeah, right. Good question. We have seen this happen on YouTube again and again and again and again. Cocomelon, right? Like it started from nothing. And look at this now. So bigger than a lot of Disney IPs, right? And Disney, I think Disney bought them. Disney tried to buy them. Something happened there. So this is basically the difference you can do. And there's nothing wrong with it. You should do the small things. But if you are in the business of producing content, if you are in the business of thinking about advertising, if you're in the business of touching pixels, the world is not the same as it was two years ago. And not in a small way, in a very, very deep way. While it might not solve the whole thing for you at the moment, but you have to start really thinking about what would the economics look like a year from now, two years from now, and five years from now. And what. What should the business be like? Exactly. It's great. Well, this has been great. We would love to have you back on to. There's so many different topics we can cover, so. And I appreciate how freely that you're willing to speak on so many different. On so many different topics. So that's the only way. That's the only way. You just gotta be yourself. Awesome. Well, thank you for tuning in. We'll talk to you soon. Talk soon. Thanks so much for having me. Cheers. See you guys. And we have some breaking news from tbpn. Let's go to the printer cam, which. I believe the timeline. Here it goes. Printer cam's ready. Terminal. I see it spinning up. We got some breaking news. We got some breaking news. What is this? Traded. He got a trade deal he's wanting. Timeline is in turmoil. Special segment starting now. I love this because it's. Soham Parikh just became famous. It's funny because in the last few hours, not for the reason, reasons that he would necessarily want to be famous. No, no. Is this a real picture of him? Do we know or. But this is from Var Epsilon says breaking Meta OpenAI Anthropic and Google have signed Soham Parikh as fractional Chief AI Officer. Obviously a joke, but he's been on the timeline all day because apparently he's been working at multiple YC companies. Multiple companies at the same time. What's funny is that we were. We were working on a. During the show, we were working on a post. We couldn't decide how to frame the trade deal of Soham and some f just did it for us. Fully sent it. So Matt Parkers from Anti Metal was actually. Soham was their first engineering hire in 2022. Really smart and likable. Enjoyed working with him. We realized pretty quickly that he was working at multiple companies and we let him go. I can't imagine the amount of equity he's left on the table. Matt says hiring Soham is a new rite of passage. Tbh. Any great company should go through it. So Suhail was the first person to call this out. He said this morning. Or actually it was last night. So this has been building psa. There's a guy named Soham Parikh in India who works at three to four startups at the same time. He's been preying on YC companies and more. Gary is not going to be happy about this. You do not. You don't want to put up the bat. You don't want Gary people to put up the Gary sign. No. You don't want to go up against him. But apparently he's praying on YC companies. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying, scamming people. Oh, this is fascinating. Did you see this from Pratika Meta? Tyler put this in that. You want to read this one first? He's been all over the place. Roy said, I interviewed this guy yesterday. No way. That's really. Tyler, break it down for us. What does Pratika have to say? Okay, so apparently, I mean, this is still unconfirmed. I've actually, I've sent him an email. Okay. I obtained his email. I'm not sure if it's the real one. We'll see. But she says the dude clears interviews. He's good with that. After clearing, he has junior people doing all the work and he has around 20 employees and interns. Basically a small dev shop. Wow. So he's just figured out the economics of like, hey, if I'm making 200k. Or 300k, he's basically signing people to a 20k a month retainer. He knows he's going to have some churn. Yep. But it doesn't matter. He's picking up some equity. This is fast equity comp as well. Yes. I wonder if he's vest. I wonder if he's. I wonder if he's vested some shares. On the balance sheet at any of these companies. This is Ken Watana says Soham Parikh is the Bonnie Blue of yc. Very vulgar.

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