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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Vivek
Vivek has been an AI researcher at Google, working on applied AI problems in healthcare. Earlier, he worked at Facebook AI research on multimodal assistant systems.
Tiantian
Deeply care about Alzheimer's, prevention, and clinical research. Formerly product at Verily/Google. Built world's first ever mosquito factory.
Liam
Liam is a technology entrepreneur building his next venture. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of ProcureNow, acquired by OpenGov, which was later acquired by Cox Enterprises for $1.8 billion. Liam holds an MBA from Harvard and BA from Pomona.
Curtis
2020-12-10: • Working on: Electric Capital’s open source developer report (shipped this morning here), recruiting infrastructure for SPC. • Looking for: Nothing at the moment • Ask about: crypto, devtools, fundraising
Joe
Joe (Jue) previously led growth projects at Snap focused on iOS, cross platform, and mobile performance. He holds MS and BS in computer science from UPenn and currently resides in NYC.
Sean
Sean Howell, was CEO of Hornet, where he built a 40M-user LGBTQIA+ social network, and co-founder of Buffalo Market. Sean applies lessons from consumer tech to SaaS, leveraging his global experience to create impactful, user-friendly solutions.
Abhishek
Passionate about all things Startups, Fintech and Investing | Core Values - Empathy, Curiosity & Humility
Tim
Tim Shi is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cresta. He started his PhD at Stanford AI Lab researching natural language processing and reinforcement learning. He was an early member of the OpenAI team in 2016 and made contribution to building safe AGI in digital environments. His work on "world of bits" laid foundation for web-based reinforcement learning agents. He co-founded Cresta in 2017 and Cresta was one of first companies to deploy generative AI in enterprise, including GPT based suggestions product in 2019. Cresta is backed by top investors including Sequoia, a16z, Greylock and helps drive hundreds of millions in ROI across Fortune 500 customers like United Airlines, US Bank and Verizon. He and his team hold multiple patents in AI for contact center conversations.
Jack
Roboticist and quantitative trader. Led Skydio's Motion Planning & Controls Team before developing proprietary trading algorithms for electricity markets. Stanford CS/EE graduate.
Biswanath
I have been a quant trader at Nomura, and a quant strategist at a $2B AUM hedge fund. The entrepreneur in me built buyt.in, acquired by Dailyhunt, India's largest content platform, where we built out the monetization product, scaling to $50M revenue. A "techno-quant", I aim to marry my two passions - product and investment management - to make investing simpler.

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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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