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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Waseem
I'm a cofounder of Pilot, a modern finance team offering the best bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. I'm an engineer by background and have cofounded and sold a couple of companies with friends I met while studying at MIT. In 2011, Ksplice was acquired by Oracle, and Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014.
Jonathan
Jon is a founder and design leader with 15 years of experience building products and managing teams. He has led design at Facebook, Cruise, and Patreon. He co-founded Harvard's design conference and is currently a design advisor to several seed-stage co's.
Ani
Ani is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Orbital, building the ZoomInfo for companies selling to SMBs and midmarket. Previously led engineering at Cisco Meraki and held product and GTM roles at Polymail and Tivamo. Background in CS and business from Rice University.
Colin
Colin is building Clerk, which allows you to add beautiful sign-up, sign-in, and user profiles to your application in minutes. He previously worked on products in financial services and travel.
Arjun
Diving into the post-purchase CX space for hardware companies. Currently, business analyst at McKinsey. Formerly, software and product at Uber, startups. BS, MS in Computer Science from Columbia
Noah
Noah is an applied AI lead at OpenAI, focused on turning frontier models into real-world impact. Previously co-founded Eureka and led product at Forward after starting out as a software engineer. Former South Park Commons fellow.
Amanda
Amanda is CEO and Co-Founder of Unseen AI. Her experience is physics and signal processing, applied to develop purpose-built multi-channel acoustic devices found on autonomous cars by GM and Zoox. Prior to AVs and consumer electronics, her focus was simulation for architectural acoustics. Projects included shape/finish optimization of 36 recording studios for Warner Music Group, 16 Apple Stores, the Apple Campus.
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.
Charlie
Charlie is the co-founder of Expo, a platform for building universal native apps using JavaScript. Previously co-founded Quora and led early engineering teams at Facebook.
Alex
Engineering Manager at Stainless, leading the Apps team. Previously founded Interval (acquired by Meter), helping developers build better internal tools with 10x less code. . Ask ChatGPT

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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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