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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Josh
CTO at Generally Intelligent, an AI research company focused building human-like intelligent systems. Angel investor. Always happy to help or chat about AI, ML, or anything I've worked on previously (crypto, VR, finance, manufacturing, gaming, etc)
Omar
Always building. Previously engineering @ Alchemy, computer science @ Stanford (systems undergrad + AI masters dropout).
Jonathan
I make apps people ❤️. formerly cofounder @Timehop, built an entertainment company on top of airpods (http://pairplayapp.com) and the Lumo drawing iPad app + built http://ExitstrategyNYC.com + former designer @Snapchat
Daanish
Born in Kashmir. Left at 16 to attend Stanford, where I had the good luck of learning from some of the world's great thinkers. Founded a hacker-artist collective and an edtech co. Now shaping my next adventure. Ping me about books or nn pretraining!
Palash
Building an AI co-pilot for playable ads to help mobile gaming teams. Studied CSE at IIT Bombay. Spent 2 years at Samsung HQ, Korea as a software engineer. Worked at CRED ($6B fintech) in product. Built AI-driven personal growth products as part of an early stage startup—learnt a lot, but wouldn’t recommend it as a business.
Timothy
Hi, I'm Tim! I'm currently working on building an AI assistant for institutional investors. Previously I spent just about three years at Facebook and one year at a hedge fund.
Marco
Marco began his career in academia, earning a PhD in CS at ETH Zurich before moving to Berkeley for his postdoc. From there, he became an early engineer at Pure Storage and other startups before transitioning into engineering leadership, most recently serving as VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence. He also spent time working on incubations with Sutter Hill Ventures, giving him deep experience across the entire company-building lifecycle, from ideation to scale.
Jonathan
I'm a founder and software engineer with previous experience in legal tech and consumer products. I've worked at Google, Cisco, and Walmart Labs. I also make music.
Benjamin
New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!
Nagasrikanth
Founder in Robotics & ML. Built Explorer AI, a large-scale mapping platform for autonomous vehicles (acquired by Standard Cognition). On a mission to bring robots 🤖 into everyday life. CMU alum & yoga teacher 🧘🏻‍♂️.

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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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