Parekh Joins AI Startup Darwin and Commits to Exclusive Focus
Soham Parekh · Soham Parekh Breaks His Silence (First Interview) · Jul 3, 2025 · at 15:32
Software engineer Soham Parekh discusses his next career step following viral scrutiny over secretly working multiple remote software engineering jobs simultaneously.
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“Working with a company called Darwin, they are essentially Like building a new, like AI driven, like data platform, like, you know, video platform essentially for more kind of like, you know, UGC style media. And we're going to release to the market very shortly. This is the only thing I'm going to focus on.”
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