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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Ying
After spending 12 years as a public market investor at hedge funds, I am now building AI assistant for institutional investors.
Clarence
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Mac
Hi, I'm Mac 👋. I'm actively exploring problems at the intersection of AI and American dynamism. My inbox is always open and I'm looking forward to meeting all of you!
Omar
Always building. Previously engineering @ Alchemy, computer science @ Stanford (systems undergrad + AI masters dropout).
Rohan
Building an AI Growth Team. Previously built new products for SMBs and creators at Meta, Yelp, and Yahoo. As Founder, I started an 8 person company for non-profits to raise capital.
Vishal
Founder, Embedding.store • SPC Fellow • ML at Twitter, Microsoft • Singer, Songwriter
Kanjun
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company building human-like general intelligence by evolving self-supervised architectures to tackle human developmental milestones of increasing complexity. Kanjun is interested in human agency, institutions for discovery, social technologies, and understanding what machine learning algorithms might teach us about psychology.
Charlie
Currently building Pulley to streamline construction permitting. Previously a founder, PM, and engineer at eero, Oasis Labs, and Amazon. Passionate about software, cities, and solving messy infrastructure problems.
Santiago
Santi is the CEO and co-founder at Momentum.io. He was previously co-founder and CTO at Blameless, CTO of Whyline, first employee and Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, Staff engineer at Mulesoft. He cares about entrepreneurship, great company culture, building delightful products, and accomplishing great goals.
Alexendar
I am CEO of Silico Therapeutics. My speciality is in software development for CRISPR target specificity. I hold a Ph.D in computer science. I hold an M.D.

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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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