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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Jie
Jie has been part of the OpenAI research team since 2016. He was previously an early engineer at Dropbox.
Connor
Connor is the CEO, co-founder of Speak, an AI Speaking App that teaches users English. Prior to that, Connor created Flashcards+ which is an education app used by over 5 million students worldwide and eventually sold it to Chegg.
Pacssu
Product Design Leader + Builder, Previously VP of Product Design at Ro, Currently tackling loneliness problem for new gen., PACSSU, Product Designer & Team Builder. Most recently, VP of Product Design at Ro, now exploring addressing lonlieness.
Naman
Engineer. Curious. Recently did my 5K run, soon 10K. Vipaasna practitioner. code, books, paint & fun. Recently cofounded and was CEO of DoWhileAI (Sequoia Surge9). ex-Coinbase, Goldman and Walmart. IIT Roorkee 2017. ICPC Regionals. Explore hardware. Want to explore acting!
Hamidah
I'm a research affiliate at the Topos Institute helping develop CatColab, a structured model editor. I'm interested in how we can meaningfully document and make sense of procedural knowledge (e.g., with Git). I'm also a non-resident fellow at IFP where I focus on high-skilled immigration policy.
Michael
Michael is the co-founder and CTO at Column Tax, building software to make taxes radically simpler. Previously worked on simulation systems for self-driving cars at Waymo, Uber ATG, and Aurora.
Jared
Jared has been developing software for over 20 years. He has started multiple companies and a non-profit. He started the Boston office for Pivotal and served as the Director for the first year of operations. He is currently exploring Web3.
Steffen
I'm an ML engineer that's worked on speech recognition (training embedded acoustic models, semi-supervised learning, accented languages). I also love building random projects with friends like a 3D version of Zoom, a collapsible water filled dumbbell, and an augmented reality NFT collection. Right now I'm exploring LLM's + ecommerce and learning how to breakdance, Same as current
Andrew
I am the cofounder and CEO of Ascend, a fintech startup that handles payments and financing for the $1T insurance industry. Previously, cofounder Sheltr (acquired by Hippo Insurance), early employee (2014) at Instacart.
Wenda
AI + Robotics, Ex Apple, CMU

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What our members do


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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