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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Arjun
Diving into the post-purchase CX space for hardware companies. Currently, business analyst at McKinsey. Formerly, software and product at Uber, startups. BS, MS in Computer Science from Columbia
Michael
Ridd is the co-founder of InFlight, building the first AI-native feedback platform for designers. He’s also the creator of Dive and Figma Academy, where thousands of designers have learned advanced product design tactics. Previously founding designer at Maven, with deep roots in design education and community.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others
Sam
Applied ML and fishing enthusiast. Former ML eng at Waymo and Google.
Divanny
Former startup CEO and VC/product leader, now exploring how AI might grok the physical world. Focused on infrastructure, resilience, and really great sourdough.
Ben
Founder and Engineer building the AI copilot for medication prior auth. Previously Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Rupa Health. British 🇬🇧 and an improv comedian 🤣
Shreyas
Key Management at Coinbase, Infra at Checkr
Bryan
CTO of Centari. We help with documents.
Jonathan
I make apps people ❤️. formerly cofounder @Timehop, built an entertainment company on top of airpods (http://pairplayapp.com) and the Lumo drawing iPad app + built http://ExitstrategyNYC.com + former designer @Snapchat
Leah
Leah was the engineering leader for Slack's Enterprise products, building out Grid and growing the team 10x. Prior to that she co-founded zumper.com and worked at Google as an engineer and analyst.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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