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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Aaron
Originally from a tiny town in New Mexico, now in NYC. Previously engineering @ Ramp, $BFLY, decently successful bootstrapper, violinist. Ask me about literary fiction — long and short.
Thomas
Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.
Veer
Veer is a CS major from MIT specializing in AI and distributed systems. He's currently building Inflight, a platform that democratizes access to expert feedback, enabling teams to build better products. Previously, Veer built Airchat for two years.
Daniel
Co-founder at Persona AI
Yuran
Worked on the desktop client at Dropbox for a few years. Before that, co-founder of ZeroMailer, acquired by Dropbox. Before that, professional gambler. Now working on building System2.
Avikalp
Building the future of software development | Previously built zero-attrition tech team from 2 to 70 engineers @ GetMega | AI/IoT-patent holder | ex-Microsoft Research | IIT Kanpur (CSE) | ODF23
Justin
Justin most recently led Growth at Rockset, and worked on Google's Cloud Security team prior. He was also the Founder/CEO of Xenia Gifts. Justin graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration.
Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.
Michael
Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.
Ning
Full stack engineer and designer. I previously co-founded a health insurance marketplace, and before that worked as a engineer and data scientist at a few social networks.

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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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