AI founder shares Soham Parekh's 'Operation Sindoor' guilt texts amid drone incident

AI startup founder Arkadiy Telegin claims Soham Parekh emotionally manipulated him during Operation Sindoor.

As the controversy around Soham Parekh deepens, a US-based AI startup founder has shared screenshots of his conversations with the Indian techie, claiming that he used tensions between India and Pakistan during Operation Sindoor to emotionally manipulate him.

Leaping AI founder Arkadiy Telegin took to X (formerly Twitter) to reveal messages exchanged with Parekh. He said that the techie guilt-tripped him for taking too long on pull requests while the latter claimed to be caught in the middle of a conflict zone.

“Soham used to guilt-trip me for being slow on PRs when the India-Pakistan thing was going on, all while he was in Mumbai. The next person should hire him for the Chief Intelligence Officer role,” Telegin wrote.

In the screenshots, dated during the peak of Operation Sindoor, Parekh messaged Telegin at 2.29 AM saying, “Drone shot down 10 minutes away.” Telegin, appearing alarmed, asked if Parekh was okay. Parekh replied that a building near his home had been damaged.

Telegin’s post was met with a mix of concern and criticism. One user accused him of seeking “cheap labour,” to which the founder responded by saying he had offered Parekh a compensation package ranging from $150,000 to $200,000, along with equity in the company.