That's a particularly terrible cold email, you can tell he didn't even bother applying some basic personalisation to it outside of [COMPANY_NAME]

Nutshell: Toxic founders who want developers to code 24X7 may hired him seeing this.

ding ding ding. both soham + recruiter implied he basically just codes day and night. our founder (yc) was drooling! there's a very specific type of company + founder that falls for this stuff. no surprise he targeted ai startups.

Yes, this is probably what happened. Not like he was a super human engineer.