Valuetainment - Employee Caught Working at 4 Companies

00:00:00.000 So a founder entrepreneur exposes a previous employee at his company and he puts it out on Twitter and it goes viral.

00:00:05.980 23 million views. Here's what he had to say.

00:00:08.740 There's a guy named Soharam Parekh in India who works at three to four startups at the same time.

00:00:14.620 He's been preying on YC companies and more.

00:00:18.140 Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying, scamming people.

00:00:23.580 He hasn't stopped a year later. No more excuses.

00:00:27.280 Now you may be watching the same path. Give me a break. Maybe the guy was doing it right.

00:00:30.840 What's wrong with him having multiple jobs? You should give him a break.

00:00:33.380 This guy's maybe telling the truth. He's now come out asking people, please, can I change?

00:00:38.560 Is there anything I can do about it? And when the guy posts his name out there,

00:00:41.940 a bunch of entrepreneurs that hired this guy as well started saying things.

00:00:45.720 He said, this guy's such a liar that he would change his resume, put different job postings,

00:00:51.020 recreate a different profile with a company. He says, one time we said, where are you based out of? 0.81

00:00:55.060 I'm out of US. He sent him a laptop. The guy sends him a laptop. He sent it to his sister's house

00:00:59.620 who's living in US. This guy's in India, such a big fraudster of a thing that happened here. 1.00

00:01:03.880 But is it really on this guy or is it on the employers that are hiring Ken?

00:01:07.960 Because this happened to me a handful of times and I'm going to share about a few things

00:01:11.640 you can do as an entrepreneur.

00:01:13.860 If you give value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.

00:01:23.860 Here's how simple it is for me when it comes to work from home. If you're so good at working

00:01:27.560 from home, start a business. If you're such a good disciplined person working from home that

00:01:31.940 you won't go to TV, watch Netflix, go to the break, hang out, bring your girl over, do so many

00:01:37.540 great things. If you're so great at it, start a damn business. Forget about having a job working 1.00

00:01:41.420 from home. Do it for yourself. Be a solopreneur. You're such a great disciplined person. You ought

00:01:46.040 to be able to do it now. A lot of people get back. Give me a break. Some of us don't have the money.

00:01:49.360 I started a business. I don't have any money. You're claiming you're so disciplined. Then do

00:01:53.600 it because in my opinion, and I've hired many, it works very rarely. It's worked for me with a few

00:01:59.700 people, but most of the time, I'm not a fan of work from home. Working from home mainly benefits

00:02:05.700 the one working from home. Let me say it one more time. Working from home mainly benefits

00:02:11.400 the one working from home. Watch this. So this is the guy, right? That he said, well,

00:02:15.820 I needed the jobs. You don't understand. I was working 140 hours a week for all the companies

00:02:20.540 and all these other founders of this different companies that hired him. You know, one of them

00:02:24.760 from Antimetal, Fleet AI, Lindy, Create, Synthesia, War, all of them said, reported quickly, quick

00:02:32.240 hires followed by rapid terminations, wants to overlap and underperformance became clear. Like

00:02:37.080 the moment we hired him and then all of a sudden he's not doing the job, boom, fired him. But this

00:02:41.340 guy's going to prey on other people. There's thousands of small businesses. They can rip off

00:02:45.280 with a nice fancy resume that are not going to call the references and the references could be

00:02:48.860 a cousin or somebody you pay 50 bucks to go give a good reference. Oh yeah. Let me tell you,

00:02:53.160 you work for us, did a great job on coding and all this stuff. You simply give them a script. Can you give

00:02:57.500 them a script on what to do when somebody calls a reference call so I can give to my boss? It's not hard to do

00:03:02.600 nowadays. Everything is easy, right? When you're going through it. Here's what he said in an

00:03:06.820 interview. He admitted the truth. He had multiple jobs working approximately 140 hours a week,

00:03:11.760 driven by dire financial necessity, not greed. He said he personally wrote all the code and didn't

00:03:17.200 count on any other engineers or AI. Really? Yeah. Listen, he got a job offer to go work in San Francisco,

00:03:24.200 $250,000 job offer that he said no to. You know why? Because it wasn't remote. You have to work out of an

00:03:30.620 office. $250,000 your job. He said no to because that company knew that they only wanted you to

00:03:37.020 work from home. And imagine if they said yes, the way you automatically filter out PS is what work

00:03:43.220 from the office. You give them the computer. I can track what you're doing on the computer.

00:03:47.740 Anything else you do, it's on you. Now watch a company said, look, there are so many stories like

00:03:53.360 this. We're going to hire somebody to go catch all of them. This is a funny story. The guy doesn't give

00:03:58.640 his real name, but they use the name Eric here. So a millennial named Eric gets a job and his tech

00:04:04.780 company hires this guy who's supposed to track down employees secretly working multiple jobs for

00:04:10.740 this company. So he goes in and he starts tracking them. After tracking what everybody else is doing

00:04:15.780 within the company, not nationwide or internationally or industry-wise, just for the small company that

00:04:21.840 it was working for. This is his job description. Looking for workers who outsource their job

00:04:26.480 responsibility to overseas contractors, number two, foreign actors who infiltrated companies by

00:04:32.220 posting as legitimate hires and employees secretly juggling multiple jobs without the company's

00:04:37.980 approval. You know what ended up happening after he started investigating it? After he started looking

00:04:42.500 at everybody, he became so inspired that he started doing it himself. And then all of a sudden,

00:04:47.940 he applied and landed multiple remote jobs at companies, bringing his combined annual income to roughly

00:04:54.620 $300,000 a year. He said he only worked a couple hours a day across the jobs, yet made $300,000.

00:05:02.960 Now, whose fault is this? Eric's fault? Is it this guy's fault? You know what's the worst thing about

00:05:08.420 this guy? This face is going to be there forever. You know what it's like? You know that HR guy and the

00:05:13.800 CEO, you know the guy, the CEO guy with a beautiful wife at home with multiple kids, he's hugging the

00:05:20.100 head of HR at a Coldplay conference that even the Coldplay guys like, either they're shy or they're

00:05:25.960 cheating, right? They're both married. Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.

00:05:31.620 You know how many people kept, now that's a meme, that baseball games, everybody's making fun of them.

00:05:37.160 For the rest of your life, he's probably going to get so much play from all the girls. Oh my God,

00:05:42.680 he is such a rebel. I like him. Hey, are you willing to hug me from the back and all this bullshit?

00:05:47.900 But you know what's going to follow him forever? His reputation. Forever. This is forever. 0.99

00:05:55.860 Forever. It's reputation. Who the hell is going to hire somebody like this? And he's going to try to,

00:06:01.200 I hope he saved a lot of it. He better become a small business owner learning how to make money.

00:06:07.160 Because in life, we make mistakes. I'm not sitting here telling him to make mistakes and we all walk

00:06:11.000 from water. Not at all. We make mistakes. But this kind of a mistake, is it a crime? Depends. If

00:06:16.820 you're on financial services, you have to give an OBA, outside business activity. Whatever job I had,

00:06:22.360 I had to report it to my branch office manager. If I had my series 766-3126 securities, that is a crime.

00:06:29.180 That is something they can fine you on. Is he committing a crime? No. Now watch this pattern here,

00:06:34.220 what we'll learn. So as you go through the story, a couple of the stories comes out. You hear about

00:06:38.940 the over-employment that, oh my God, people are getting multiple jobs. And in 2024, research came

00:06:45.080 from sidehustle.com, found that one third of remote workers maintain multiple jobs and 25% of employees

00:06:50.740 hold multiple positions, averaging 50 hours per week across their roles. So you read these stories,

00:06:56.360 right? And more people that are doing multiple jobs are women than men. It's 26% of women and only 18% 0.98

00:07:02.220 of men. And then it comes to this one story, which I love. His name is Dmitry Zaitsev,

00:07:06.880 founder of talent management companies, Dandelion Civilization. He said this to CNBC,

00:07:11.440 Silicon Valley's obsession with productivity metrics and fast hiring has created conditions

00:07:14.940 where a person can juggle five roles. So he's putting it on who? The companies. You know why?

00:07:20.200 Let me finish the sentence. And not because it's efficient, but because no one is truly looking.

00:07:25.400 I'll read it one more time. Silicon Valley's obsession with productivity metrics and fast hiring 0.93

00:07:30.820 has created conditions where a person can juggle five roles, not because it's efficient,

00:07:35.320 because no one is truly looking. You ain't holding anybody accountable. I remember one time I had an

00:07:40.080 HR guy that was working for me, secretly lazy guy, was so impressive, was secretly lazy guy.

00:07:46.020 Did you call the reference? Of course I did. And finally I went and looked in myself and I said,

00:07:50.320 so tell me about it. No reference calls were being made for months. Like we're hiring people

00:07:55.240 without reference calls. Yes. What are you talking about? Yes. Another thing happened to me. I've been

00:07:59.480 around for a while, guys, at one of my engineers who I hired. Let's say he's working out of, I don't

00:08:04.280 want to say the place, let's just say he's working out of Arizona. Without telling anybody, he had

00:08:08.880 moved to Nevada. His whole family moved to Nevada. Didn't tell us for months. This guy, we're paying

00:08:14.140 a W-2 salary. Full-blown W-2 salary. Benefits, equity, everything. We'll treat them royally. He's only

00:08:19.840 required to come here once every other month. Now I find that through somebody else that he's not there

00:08:23.640 anymore. Not internally here in the company. We're on a Zoom. And I just wanted to look at his eyes to see

00:08:28.240 if he would be honest with me. If he would have told me the truth, I would have kept him. And I

00:08:31.080 said, so how are things in Arizona? I know for a fact he's gone, not because of social media sites,

00:08:37.360 but I know for a fact, like it's not, I know 100% he's gone and I know he's got another job. So he's

00:08:43.220 trying to do both jobs. This is a multi six-figure salary. And he says, oh, things are great here in

00:08:48.220 Arizona. I was like, really? Yeah. Very good in Arizona. I'm like, fantastic. That's great to hear.

00:08:53.320 That was his last day. We kept him for a few more weeks, but I know I could never trust him.

00:08:57.320 Now here's the thing. In his eyes, he may think that he fooled us and he got a couple salary,

00:09:03.080 but I will never give him a good reference. If he ever wanted one, if he says, I don't give a

00:09:08.000 shit about getting your reference. I totally get it. But you know who won't give you a reference? 0.90

00:09:11.980 You know who that matters the most? The man in the mirror won't give you a reference. You can fool me.

00:09:17.240 You can fool hundreds of different employers. You can fool a bunch of different people. When you look at

00:09:21.660 yourself in the mirror, you don't respect yourself because you're a con. You can fool other people. 0.79

00:09:25.820 That's a very difficult person to be with. And if you can do that, no power to. Many of us can't do

00:09:31.400 it. You mean to tell me you're fooling four or five different companies that you got a job and

00:09:35.320 you're doing something like this? Are we supposed to say it's his fault? Yeah. I mean, he's embarrassed

00:09:38.780 publicly. The only reason the guy who posted the tweet, if you want to go read the whole tweet,

00:09:42.960 go to my profile and go all the way down and look for this guy's tweet so you can read it.

00:09:47.080 The best part about this tweet is the comment section. He posts the guy's resume and then he goes in and

00:09:51.960 one guy says the following, that why do you feel moonlighting is wrong? If he aced the interviews

00:09:57.100 and was the best so you hired him, what's wrong with that? He responds, gets nothing done, made up

00:10:02.080 constant lies, corroborated by six other companies. The tweet will service 10 plus more. You'll see.

00:10:07.440 He continues. Another person says, if you're going to call someone out, you should do it right and link

00:10:12.880 to some creds. Lots of people with same name will be hurt by this. He says, that won't help.

00:10:18.360 This is a scammer. He will change his email, Git, LinkedIn, et cetera. When we fired him,

00:10:24.680 he immediately changed his GitHub username and such. You go through seeing stories like this

00:10:30.320 happens all the time, but whose fault is it? Nobody told you to hire somebody overseas. Say 0.76

00:10:34.420 you got to work at the office. That's how you do it. Or you get paid per project. You get done.

00:10:38.780 If I'm going to hire you, I'll much rather hire a, I'll never forget. I hired my CTO that's been

00:10:43.100 with me now for about four or five years, five years. He sold his software to Prudential for $600

00:10:47.040 million. He's been my CTO out of Dallas. And while I'm hiring him, I said, you've been

00:10:51.560 on the other side selling services for engineers to code projects. Why would I hire you to come

00:10:57.540 in if that's what you've done? He says, well, the difference is in many cases we can hire

00:11:02.000 20 engineers internally. Sometimes it benefits to hire an outsource somebody outside that

00:11:07.360 we pay by project getting done. And if I can figure out how many hours it takes to get this

00:11:11.840 project done, then we can save money in HR because it's a headache dealing with so many

00:11:15.820 different engineers. Well, that's a different story. Hey, if you do X, Y, Z update on the

00:11:20.640 software, that's going to cost us 200 hours with engineers per $60 per engineer, $100 per

00:11:27.280 engineer, a hundred hours, a hundred dollars, $10,000. Great goal. So the responsibility is

00:11:32.180 on that guy to do it. But if you hire an internal employee working elsewhere that you can't track,

00:11:37.940 you're risking it yourself. I've taken that risk many times because I'm sometimes in a city

00:11:41.860 that can hire the right engineer locally because maybe the talent pool is in there for me to find.

00:11:47.080 So again, I can say this over and over with many other stories of what happens, but the reality of

00:11:55.800 it is it comes back to the entrepreneur and the CEO. I wrote a few things. So now somebody may say,

00:12:01.420 well, Pat, the climate is so bad. You need to have multiple jobs. And so what should we do?

00:12:05.960 Whatever you do, protect your reputation. When COVID was happening, we're on the podcast.

00:12:11.180 It's me, Adam, and another guy. And this other guy, one name, and Adam over here is like,

00:12:16.280 if you have to lie to go get a different job and get your $40,000 more, go get the bag,

00:12:21.980 go get the bag. And I'm like, I'm telling you, don't listen to these guys. Don't do it. Go get

00:12:27.720 the backpack. You don't know you have money at that. Your character and your reputation is going to

00:12:32.280 follow you forever. It's going to follow you forever. If you stay with a company that you do

00:12:38.160 right and they take care of you long-term and you're straight up with them, they know they can't

00:12:43.720 find somebody like that out there. They're going to value you. They already know a bunch of other

00:12:48.060 people are doing that. So for me, long-term credibility wise, I wouldn't do it. Short-term

00:12:54.480 quick respect, short-term quick payback. Great. Go do it. Just make sure you're asking the right

00:13:00.060 person for counsel. By the way, you say you want to make more money. Nobody asked you to choose that

00:13:04.500 career. You chose that career. God gives all of us different passions and different talents. You

00:13:08.200 still can't find a way to be the best you can do with the job that you have. So company, career,

00:13:13.220 college brainwashing, the job you took, fine arts major, lifestyle, you know, economy, saving skill,

00:13:19.160 all of these things add up. But for the company that's going through this, as you're hiring people,

00:13:23.440 references call them, hire people in the office, create specific tests and protocols. And when

00:13:29.900 you're calling references, ask the person who you're calling for references. So you can go look

00:13:34.560 at the person on LinkedIn. If the person giving you reference is a real person, test everybody.

00:13:38.200 Nowadays with AI and ChadGBT, everyone's being tested, but it's still on you and I to check.

00:13:43.540 If I have a daughter or a sister or a friend who gets played by a guy, is it the player's fault or

00:13:50.540 the person that got fooled? Whose fault is it? Everyone gets played, but it's on the person that gets

00:13:54.740 for a guy. Man X me says, Hey Patrick, I just sent $115,000 of Bitcoin to a guy because he started

00:14:01.620 an accelerator. So let me tell you what I did. A guy that was doing scamming, saying the fact that

00:14:07.880 he was my Bitcoin guy and I could invest $25,000 to him. You know what I did? I found out the website

00:14:15.340 website and I called him myself. Is this the program that Patrick B. David endorses from

00:14:21.760 Valuetainment? Patrick B. David is the founder of this? Of course. He is the founder. I'm just a broker in charge

00:14:30.540 of his site. Okay. So you work for Patrick B. David? I just want to make sure this is tied to him

00:14:37.040 because if it's not, I'm not going to. I work for him. My work here is to direct you guys

00:14:41.740 and assist you. I called him so many times and he told me he's Patrick B. David's personal scan,

00:14:49.220 personal Bitcoin manager and he manages all my money. I stayed with him. I said, tell me about

00:14:54.020 what your relationship is with Patrick B. David. I don't know the clue with this guy's. How long

00:14:57.060 you spent? I spent a lot of time with him, but you're asking too many personal questions. So you work

00:15:00.800 directly for Patrick B. David. So are you the person that manages all his crypto account? Yeah.

00:15:07.040 I'm not the only one. I can manage all crypto accounts. I'm not a robot. We have other people

00:15:11.700 who manage other accounts. Wow. Eventually, 20 minutes later, I'm talking to the guy and calling

00:15:16.140 him six, seven, eight times. He can watch old video. Eventually, I said, this is Patrick B. David.

00:15:20.620 Click. He hangs up. So it's a very interesting time, but it falls on us. If you got played,

00:15:25.940 you got played. I've been played before, but I try to get sharper and sharper and sharper.

00:15:30.100 Employers need to get better today or else people like this, when they see this video,

00:15:35.880 you know the average person that sees this video, what they're going to do. Some of the people that

00:15:39.200 are like, oh my God, let me go try this right now. Go get four or five jobs. People don't watch this

00:15:42.520 video. They're like, oh, okay. They're going to be like, oh, that's a great idea. I'm going to go

00:15:45.720 get three, four, five jobs. Short-term, short-term, short-term, short-term, short-term, long-term.

00:15:49.880 I don't know how I got here. I do. Many do. You don't because you chase the short-term.

00:15:56.320 I really wonder who loved this video, who hated this video, but for the right person,

00:16:00.260 we just saved you millions of dollars for the right person. That may be only 200 of you,

00:16:05.860 but everybody else that watch, think long-term, not short-term. If you got value out of this video,

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00:16:15.440 on the neck, that's five bucks a month. A bunch of you guys can network with each other. Some QR code

00:16:19.880 will be here and I'll put the link in the description as well. Go subscribe to it so you can network with

00:16:23.400 others. When you're going through stuff like this, it's a great place to filter things out.

00:16:26.840 And if you've never seen this video with this frog guy, this guy right here, I'm going to put

00:16:30.480 the link up here. Go watch the video. Fully entertaining. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

Valuetainment - July 28, 2025

Employee Caught Working at 4 Companies

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