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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Raghav
Software engineer and technical leader. Formerly: co-founded lightpage.com, led the AI engineering team at Airtable to first public launch, led internal deployment of Presto at Meta. He has a Masters in distributed systems from Princeton.
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Olivia
Currently building something in the generative AI space. Previously a data leader at Stitch Fix and Uber creating customer growth and marketplace technology.
Zain
Founder of Eureka, a healthcare company helping patients with chronic conditions get control over their symptoms.
Ben
Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he was a background in systems engineering and pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.
Gabor
3x startup founder with exits to Google and Twitter. Formerly: Director for consumer product incubator at Google, PM, and SWE. Things I like: Vercel, Supabase, PyTorch, Next.js (with reservations), and contributing to AI cookbooks on Github.
Suraj
Los Angeles. CS at Dartmouth, Engineering at Thayer. AngelList (Venture) -> now
Scott
Co-founder @ Limo. Previously led Product Engineering at Rockset. Stanford CS
Shannon
Working in Responsible AI and AI governance, and exploring how to build technology in service of a more just society. Previously, a PM at Scale AI. Berkeley alum. Based in San Francisco, and often found in NYC and Shanghai. Let's go sailing together.
Trisha
Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21. She was previously an early engineer at Affirm, and subsequently PM. She studied Computer Science at Penn. She loves to paint.

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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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