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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Perla
Senior SWE interested in fintech, AI and devOps. Currently, diving deep into a few venture-scale idea. Have a co-founder but would love to meet strong individuals to add to our founding team.
Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
James
James is a co-founder of Gamma, building a new format for modern business storytelling. Previously spent nearly eight years at Optimizely as a senior engineering leader.
Ryan
Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/
Arjun
Worked as a software engineer on the platform and tools team at Facebook. Zillow and Microsoft before that. Explored angel investing + engineering at startups including Detour, Thistle, Dandelion Chocolate, Taika and others.
Sanchit
Graduated from IIIT-Delhi, started career as founding employee at Zenatix, an IoT startup, contributing to its acquisition by Schneider Electric. Have worked at various stages of startups and scaled orgs like Apna Jobs and Microsoft. Enjoy building product driven tech. Also love science fiction and recently AI content generation.
Mel
Building the AI copilot for medication prior authorization. Previously Product at Canvas Medical and Design at IDEO.
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.
Ang
I am a startup founder in artificial intelligence, with a variety of research and product experiences on autonomous driving, videos, cameras, maps, advertisements, etc. My research aims at building lifelong autonomous agents. Previously, I worked at Google DeepMind, Baidu Apollo, Facebook AI Research, CMU Robotics, Apple, Google Streetview, and Comcast Labs DC. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park. My PhD thesis is spatial perception from visual and linguisitc information.
Rob
Rob Haisfield is the cofounder of Websim, a platform for imagining alternate internets on the fly. His background is in behavioral product strategy, gamification, and tools for thought.

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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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