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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Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).
Oliver
Building bedsidehealth.ai
Aman
I'm a licensed pilot and love flying Cessnas in the NorCal area. I've got about 10 years of experience working on 0 to 1 projects at Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta's internal innovation lab.
Mikhail
Waterloo and Google taught me engineering, while my journey to world championships in skydiving taught me human nature, high performance and leadership. I'm an explorer at heart and love the questions: "is it possible?" and "can we do it?"
Vijay
I'm a Stanford C.S. grad with 25+ years of experience, mostly in gaming but also feature film visual effects and consumer and enterprise software. I love games, teaching, building tools, karaoke, climbing, and fantasy books.
Bill
Hard-tech creator (former Tesla/Apple/IBM) - former chief system architect for Dojo AI supercomputer / designed system-on-wafer technology
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.
Damon
Software engineer & technical leader in Games. I've worked in the industry for 15 years at studios ranging from my own startup to AAA. If you're interested in the games space hit me up.
Max
Tool maker, game dev, and teacher. Now: Websim, Past at Sentry, Google Fuchsia,
Vivek
Vivek is the co-founder and CEO of Gameramp, helping games and consumer apps scale with capital and infrastructure support. Previously led new product efforts at EA and Big Viking Games.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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