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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Michael
Exploring B2B x AI. Founding engineer at Zip, led AI team until I left. Huge sports, fashion, and food fan!
Henry
Co-Founder of Super.com ($150MM+ revenue/year). Raised $150MM in VC funding
Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.
Vineet
I am an IIT Roorkee grad (Comp Sc), a techie-turned-entrepreneur and have 15 years of experience in the internet industry. I co-founded Trainman, a train ticket booking app, which amassed 20 million downloads and was later acquired by Adani group.
Kush
3x entrepreneur and executive leader with 15+ years of experience in SaaS, Hardware and consumer products. Last I was the CPO&VP Engineering @Noise(wearables) and ex- CTO&COO @SenRa(SaaS/IoT). Currently into outdoor (adventure) sports, guitar and AI.
Jon
'- Toronto → SF → Beijing → SD → SF → DC - i really loved being a part of early Coursera, and i see so much of that at SPC. glad to be here. - currently exploring NFTs, web3, developer productivity - i'm very deep on frontend engineering (mostly the back of the frontend) as well as developer productivity and engineering culture.
Pranav
Business engineer. Previously worked in pre-seed, seed, series A engineering/adjacent roles. Interests in financial markets, fintech, and infrastructure.
Alex
Alex is the co-founder of Playbook.com, a cloud storage and collaboration tool for creatives. Before that, he studied at CMU and was an engineer at Addepar and Opendoor.
Michael
I'm a full-stack engineer based in SF currently building AI tools for executive coaches at Encore. I also dabble in 3D printing/ electronics. Previously at LiveRamp, Fin, TripAdvisor, Brown
Tim
Tim is a repeat founder interested in how AI can improve how we build and operate software, teams and startups. Previously, Tim was CEO at cLabs, built cloud services at Apple, and founded Acunu, an analytics company. Tim has a PhD in CS from Cambridge.

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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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