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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Purvanshi
Create engaging videos in one click (Lica) | Applied Scientist
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.
Yazen
Technical person
Mike
Mike was previously CEO at Stamped and one of the first employees at Away. Background in data science & engineering, interested in bringing structured data understanding to AI agents.
David
Founder of Shark Tooth - a Biotech developing a treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 1A, which my son was diagnosed with 1.5 yrs ago. I'm also an angel investor & a SaaS startup advisor. Previously I was the 1st GTM leader at Notion & Typeform.
Warren
Warren was previously a Partner at Sequoia Capital where he worked shoulder-to-shoulder with founders to build large, enduring businesses.
Dhruv
Co-Founder and former CEO of Elsewhere, the Brooklyn live music company + club. Legislative and policy advocate for music, nightlife, and small business at city, state, and federal levels. Born in Mumbai, raised in CT. Yale undergrad, first career in endowment-style asset management. Lover of jazz, oceans, surfing, sailing, SCUBA, yoga, meditation, cooking, civics, and motorcycles. Talk to me about mental health, neurological disorders, and headaches. Or just about anything. Curious about all, and love to nerd out.
Ryan
15+ years in tech, mostly as a PM at companies like Google (PM for Sheets), Celonis (enterprise SaaS startup), and Pickie (a mobile commerce startup I co-founded). Now diving into AI and its many applications, and exploring where to invest my time next.
Arnaud
Arnaud is an expert in AI that worked at Google Research on language models and led search at Faire. He's exploring new ideas with his cofounder.
Liza
I'm interested in using technology to improve access to social services. Here to try and figure out how. I love handstands, reading and studying tech's impact on attention, learning and memory. Slack and Robhinhood and Matrix Partners in a previous life. Avid user of the :sparkle: emoji.

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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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