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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Scott
Building Elevate, AI-powered data management for private equity-backed roll-ups
Achyut
Current: Working on making data more accessible in web3. Previously: Machine Learning at RelyanceAI; Data Scientist at Amazon, PayPal. Love experimenting with productivity hacks
Tremaine
Tre is the co-founder of Vori, an OS for the grocery industry. Previously, he was co-founder at Greo (YCS17), a video social network for meaningful conversations (Top 40 on app store). Previously design @ Google & Mozilla, and built a nationally recognized education non-profit.
Jinjing
AI entrepreneur and ex-Google DeepMind tech lead, passionate about building AI agents that tackle real-world problems—automating the tedious, unlocking the impossible.
Marc
Co-Founder, Telepath and Wavelength. Co-Founder & Managing Director, Elevation Partners. Led business & community teams, Quora.
Jaclyn
Jaclyn worked at Alphabet for 7 years in a variety of operational roles. She helped launch Google Helpouts (a consumer marketplace to deliver expertise over live video) and most recently worked at CapitalG helping portfolio companies scale.
Arnaud
Arnaud is an expert in AI that worked at Google Research on language models and led search at Faire. He's exploring new ideas with his cofounder.
Raymond
ex-uber with 5 yoe in building products centered in recommendations and matching algos.
Sahil
Sahil is a customer-focused engineer with an extensive background in AI, recommender systems, and marketplaces. He has served an engineer and an eng leader at Facebook and Uber, working on News Feed, Video Growth, as well as Uber’s Dispatching Algorithms.
Jon
Jon is the co-founder of Gamma, reinventing business communication with a modern, multimedia memo format. Previously led product at Optimizely, helping enterprises build experimentation-driven cultures.

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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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