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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Greg
Previously at Dropbox, leading the teams for Mypy (static types for Python) and engineer collaboration tools. Before that Quora, Ksplice, Harvard math, and MIT computer science
Kushal
Exploring GenAI applications and agentic workflows. Former Head of Data and Analytics at Jiocinema and Disney+ Hotstar. Expertise in Data Platforms, Video Engineering, and Infrastructure
Chris
Christopher Kim is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is dedicated to identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing transformative solutions to improve health outcomes.
Alex
Going deep on climate/energy deep tech and applied AI. So far I’ve spent most of my career build pure software companies and now very excited to move into the world of bits + atoms.
Yahia
Exploring ideas around ERPs and vertical SaaS. Previously SWE at Snowflake building AI products, PM at nxyz building blockchain data APIs, and management consultant at McKinsey.
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.
Manasvi
Manasvi is working on communication relay satellites. He previously worked at ViaSat with the ground infrastructure of satellites serving the internet.
Praveen
Praveen Chekuri is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ascend, the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated payments, financing, & payment operations. Previously he's worked at Hippo, Houseparty & Instacart.
Curtis
2020-12-10: • Working on: Electric Capital’s open source developer report (shipped this morning here), recruiting infrastructure for SPC. • Looking for: Nothing at the moment • Ask about: crypto, devtools, fundraising
Matthew
PhD in RL, building new ways of using RL + LLMs

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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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