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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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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Aman
I'm a licensed pilot and love flying Cessnas in the NorCal area. I've got about 10 years of experience working on 0 to 1 projects at Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta's internal innovation lab.
Ying
After spending 12 years as a public market investor at hedge funds, I am now building AI assistant for institutional investors.
Kalvin
I’m a software engineer interesting in applying SV’s optimism and maker mindset to an especially challenging question: can we build software that helps people feel like they have enough and are enough, instead of amplifying and exploiting our fears of never enough?
Nathan
Robotics/AI engineer researching diffusion policies at Stanford AI lab. Previously built open-source humanoid infra and simulator. Interested in scaling robotics infra & foundation models. Multidisciplinary science olympiad finalist (chem/bio/math/CS).
Henry
Henry has deep experience building AI products and AI research, previously co-founding Jenni.ai as the technical founder & CTO. At Jenni, he scaled the startup to over $7M ARR, serving 300K monthly active users. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, with published research in neural networks, NLP, and neural music generation.
Grace
Data infrastructure + developer tooling at Palantir. Explored devtools + dating while at SPC. Have now found my way to crypto :)
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Yuran
Worked on the desktop client at Dropbox for a few years. Before that, co-founder of ZeroMailer, acquired by Dropbox. Before that, professional gambler. Now working on building System2.
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
Vishal
Vishal is the co-founder and former CTO of Leap, building products to address loneliness among older adults. Previously co-founded Screenhero (acquired by Slack), where he later led real-time communications as a Senior Engineering Manager.

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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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