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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Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
Dhruv
Dhruv is an ex-Googler with experience working on Machine Learning problems involving language and privacy. He likes thinking about big problems from first principles, appreciates thoughtful design in tech, and enjoys writing.
Germain
Germain is a franco-american who studied philosophy, volunteered with Doctors without Borders, founded 2 start-ups and helped scale Chargebee from $0.5M to $100M+. He is working with Franck on the next big thing. Germain is a father and a husband.
Shreyas
Key Management at Coinbase, Infra at Checkr
Andrew
Previously founded and exited from a company called Velvet, which made AI tools for private finance.
Henry
Exploring ideas in the AI + SRE world. Prev cold emailed my way to an early eng job @ Bubble, wound up leading product on Bubble's Infra + AI teams, then left once the company had 5x'd in size. Applied Math/CS @ Harvard. Occasional semi-pro musician.
Matt
Matt is working full-time on starting a climate-tech company. Previously, he was Head of Engineering at Studio and an ML Scientist at Tesla Autopilot. He spends his free time playing music, skateboarding, and nerding out about space travel and TTRPGs.
Tharun
Building solutions to continuously improve your voice agents. Built multiple AI products at Healthify. Always up for AI product and architecture discussions. :)
Dakota
Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.
Jack
Roboticist and quantitative trader. Led Skydio's Motion Planning & Controls Team before developing proprietary trading algorithms for electricity markets. Stanford CS/EE graduate.

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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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