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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Idan
Currently Co-founding Epoch with Akash Bhatia! Previously at Unity, adjunct at IGM @ RIT, CTO at Sandbox VR, co-founder of Dream Garage, incepted Hackster.io, and created the gTar.
Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.
Andrew
I grew up in San Diego and studied CS at Brown. I dropped out to be an early engineer at Snackpass (YC, a16z, Craft) and built out our marketplace infra that scaled from $100k's a year to $120M+ today. I am passionate about DeFi and creating globally inclusive financial products.
Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
William
Founder & CEO of Mori - building in the era of digital history.
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.
Alex
Using AI to make phone service more affordable than ever before. Former hedge fund quant. Data nerd and occasional stand-up comic.
Hanson
Building https://arcwise.app to bring data science to everyone. Formerly worked on ML infrastructure and developer tools as a MLE/SWE @ Meta.
Vishal
Founder, Embedding.store • SPC Fellow • ML at Twitter, Microsoft • Singer, Songwriter
Jared
Jared has been developing software for over 20 years. He has started multiple companies and a non-profit. He started the Boston office for Pivotal and served as the Director for the first year of operations. He is currently exploring Web3.

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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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