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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Yash
Drummer, cryptomaniac, and big fan of doggos. Building in web3 with andrew duca. Ex-robinhood, ex-cto of duffl (yc w20), kleiner perkins fellow '21
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.
Adam
Software engineer and entrepreneur with +15y of experience, particularly in the IoT and cloud. From building startups like Intellistreets to leading teams at Google. Now focusing on consulting and exploring new ideas around IoT & SW Supply Chain Security.
Nikolai
I love to build! (this is my MVP bio, I will have a better version up soon ;)) Am building a modern, intuitive CAD software for the construction industry... with Copilot. Looking for advice and feedback on my project. Very interested in hearing from people with experience scaling productivity tools. Have strong experience in 3D programming (ThreeJS), and building out focused LLM "agents".
Mahdi
Angel investing
Sahil
Sahil is a customer-focused engineer with an extensive background in AI, recommender systems, and marketplaces. He has served an engineer and an eng leader at Facebook and Uber, working on News Feed, Video Growth, as well as Uber’s Dispatching Algorithms.
Sumit
EE and CS @ Stanford. Previously CEO/cofounder of Glowstick, an AI-based 3D and animation suite. Before that I was the first AI hire @ All turtles (raised 100m+ for a zoom competitor), and was a search engineer @ laserlike (acq'd by Apple in 2019).
Allen
A bit on my background: - Born & raised in Minnesota - Most recently, Chief of Staff at Zip ($2.2B procurement SaaS) - Formerly, PE Investor at Bain Capital, Econ grad at Harvard & bootstrapped DTC founder. - I like backpacking, golfing, and recently got into motorcycling!
Tim
Tim is a repeat founder interested in how AI can improve how we build and operate software, teams and startups. Previously, Tim was CEO at cLabs, built cloud services at Apple, and founded Acunu, an analytics company. Tim has a PhD in CS from Cambridge.
Jackie
After my PhD in ML for materials science at MIT, I joined Lila Sciences as the first employee, building its scientific intelligence codebase and helping lay the foundation for a 100+ person company. Now I'm excited to develop new AI for materials science—or something entirely new!

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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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