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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Andrew
TLDR: - Previously Founder & CEO of Nova (acq. by Handshake) - Led generative AI products at Handshake - Write the TLDR AI & Founders newsletters (1M subs total - tldr.tech/ai) - Background in AI research, product, engineering, data, and investing from Google AI, Citadel, AQR, Sequoia, Branch - Angel investor in Anthropic, Pika, Mercury, Replit, Alchemy, Uniswap, Runway ML, Varda Space, Pinecone, Coframe, MultiOn, Decagon, Gumloop, Haize Labs, Mercor, Goodfire AI, Etched, and many more - Undergrad at UC Berkeley (CS & Stats), grad school at Stanford (AI) Love sports (basketball, tennis, golf, triathlon, weightlifting), puzzles & strategy games, cooking, history, and traveling. But most importantly, I love meeting, learning from, and working with amazing people.
Henrik
Impact focused product leader with a passion for design and technology. During my career I've built companies and products from zero to one as well as been through scaling as an operator and executive.
Kartik
Technologist with deep expertise in hardware R&D and AI/ML. Skilled in computational modeling, simulations, and statistical analyses. Focused on leveraging SoTA AI/ML to build AI-native enterprise solutions that drive innovation and efficiency
Clarence
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Jonathan
I'm a founder and software engineer with previous experience in legal tech and consumer products. I've worked at Google, Cisco, and Walmart Labs. I also make music.
Omar
Always building. Previously engineering @ Alchemy, computer science @ Stanford (systems undergrad + AI masters dropout).
Kenan
Outdoorsy backend Software Engineer focused on privacy and security. I have worked the last 3 years on Istio and cloud infrastructure.
Hanson
Building https://arcwise.app to bring data science to everyone. Formerly worked on ML infrastructure and developer tools as a MLE/SWE @ Meta.
Benjamin
Exploring in education. Previously building Songbird Therapy, a tech-enabled autism platform across 3 states / mid 7 figures. Let's chat about AI in services, labor markets, automated outbound, growth, regulated markets, modern entrepreneurship, interns!
Faraz
Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.

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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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