Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Manasvi
Manasvi is working on communication relay satellites. He previously worked at ViaSat with the ground infrastructure of satellites serving the internet.
Simon
Simon is a founder (technical and GTM) exploring a few ideas in applying AI/LLMs to future-of-work and traveltech. Ex-Peloton (80th employee), Palantir, and Stanford CS. More about him in his Cofounder memo (https://bit.ly/cfmemo)
Biswanath
I have been a quant trader at Nomura, and a quant strategist at a $2B AUM hedge fund. The entrepreneur in me built buyt.in, acquired by Dailyhunt, India's largest content platform, where we built out the monetization product, scaling to $50M revenue. A "techno-quant", I aim to marry my two passions - product and investment management - to make investing simpler.
Tejas
Consumer product leader w/experience in content, creator economy & gaming. Built ShareChat audio chatrooms and Moj Live, India’s largest UGC livestreaming platforms. Exploring gen AI for connection-driven products. Dabbling in mental health space and open to new ideas. Passionate about fitness, climbing & running.
Yash
Drummer, cryptomaniac, and big fan of doggos. Building in web3 with andrew duca. Ex-robinhood, ex-cto of duffl (yc w20), kleiner perkins fellow '21
Ning
Ning came from Meta FAIR where he worked as a research engineer on speech/text translation and multimodal LLM. Ning is exploring the intersection of AI applications and SMS platforms.
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.
Ryan
Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/
Adam
Software engineer and entrepreneur with +15y of experience, particularly in the IoT and cloud. From building startups like Intellistreets to leading teams at Google. Now focusing on consulting and exploring new ideas around IoT & SW Supply Chain Security.
Sahil
Sahil is a customer-focused engineer with an extensive background in AI, recommender systems, and marketplaces. He has served an engineer and an eng leader at Facebook and Uber, working on News Feed, Video Growth, as well as Uber’s Dispatching Algorithms.

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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