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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Charlie
Founder, artist, & product leader building something new 🐣 Wrote distraction-blocker app SelfControl, started an ed-tech company, sold to Workday, worked on new product strategy there for 5 years Last 2 years: building big steel fire-shooting sculptures 🔥
Nikhil
Love shipping software products in the intersection of software engineering and machine learning. , Love building software. AI/ML Engineering Leader. Worked on a team at Apple which built RAG at Web Scale. Have worked on natural language understanding for Siri, Cortana, Bing, Kinect.
Kanishk
Formerly special projects at Affirm and EE #3 at Kojo. Interested in cycling and reading science fiction. Optimistic about the world.
Ben
Ben graduated from UIUC with a thesis in high-available compute. He is a full-stack engineer from the transistor to the user-interface with 25 years of experience building Silicon, SaaS, and datacenters at IBM, AMD, and Tesla.
Andrew
I grew up in San Diego and studied CS at Brown. I dropped out to be an early engineer at Snackpass (YC, a16z, Craft) and built out our marketplace infra that scaled from $100k's a year to $120M+ today. I am passionate about DeFi and creating globally inclusive financial products.
Sam
Applied ML and fishing enthusiast. Former ML eng at Waymo and Google.
Max
Climate-tech founder, new to SF. Since my acquisition 6 months ago, I've focused on energy & grid management and construction-tech. Based on my experience, I'd like to explore if agentic AI can help mitigate complex and messy workflows in these areas.
Archit
I'm a problem-solver, excited to solve real-world problems using large foundational AI Models. I've worked at Meta, Google and Waymo on AI research and applied AI. I am currently exploring ways to build the AI-powered future of human-computer interaction.
Marc
Advising AI startup founding teams. Standing up an IB focused exclusively on AI, frontier & deep tech. Co-founder & CEO of General Magic, an Apple spin-off credited with creating the smartphone. Also a satellite company, climate & cleantech.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others

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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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