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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Lakshman
I'm one of those true believers in crypto you might've read about. Building a 10 year career in the space. Currently focused on building out Ethereum 2.0 at the Ethereum Foundation. I write here: https://www.lakshmansankar.com/#/
Yash
15+ years of experience working at companies like D.E.Shaw, inMobi, Zenefits, Square and Stripe. Started redscope.ai before. Now building Kinzy - AI parent buddy for parents, and curiosity platform for kids to unleash their creativity
Saul
I grew up in Israel and studied math at the technion. I worked as an ML engineer / EM at a few startups. I like to work on technical problems that involve optimization / planning in an uncertain environment. I have 22 roommates. In my free time, I practice bjj, write short stories and surf.
Nicole
Neuropsyhologist, increasing QOL
Justin
Exploring the intersection of healthcare, bio and technology. Enjoys running on trails. Previously @color and @twitter eng
Anthony
BA, MSc Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge PhD Computational Astrophysics at Charles University in Prague (interrupted)
Markus
Currently building WorkForge, the easiest way to get the info you need at work. Previously founder of Lobe, a visual tool to build custom deep learning models (acquired by Microsoft 2018). Graduate '14 Master's CS and '13 M&T dual degree program at Penn.
Rohan
Building an AI Growth Team. Previously built new products for SMBs and creators at Meta, Yelp, and Yahoo. As Founder, I started an 8 person company for non-profits to raise capital.
Alex
Product, prototyping, and R+D—I've done software, hardware, faceware, computer vision, always aimed at making people's interactions with computation as direct and physical as possible. I have many hot takes, which I'll share with the vaguest provocation.
Franck
Engineering leader with deep expertise in Web3 and large scale infrastructure. - VP of eng. at a DeFi crypto startup (Origin Protocol). Built smart contracts handling hundreds of millions of dollars. - Built search infra from ground up at Dropbox pre-IPO as tech lead. - Founded and managed the team that built the first Content ID system at YouTube pre Google acquisition. - Early engineer at PayPal, TLM for the Merchant facing engineering team

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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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