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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Nicole
Neuropsyhologist, increasing QOL
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is interested in climate, reversing the digitalization of identity, and, somewhat reluctantly, crypto. Previously, Jeffrey was a software engineer at Plaid and a student at Harvard (CS/Philosophy 2019). Also, please go surfing with him.
Gloria
Gloria is the founder and CEO of Siteline, bringing modern financial tools to the construction industry. Previously Stripe’s first PM hire, where she worked on Checkout, Dashboard, and Risk/Identity.
Noah
Noah is an applied AI lead at OpenAI, focused on turning frontier models into real-world impact. Previously co-founded Eureka and led product at Forward after starting out as a software engineer. Former South Park Commons fellow.
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!
Tim
Tim Shi is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cresta, where he helped pioneer the use of generative AI in the enterprise, launching a GPT-based product in 2019. A former Stanford AI researcher and early OpenAI team member, his work on web-based reinforcement learning helped shape modern digital agents. Under his leadership, Cresta powers major companies like Verizon and United Airlines, delivering hundreds of millions in ROI.
Kshitij
Co-founder of Orb, building billing infrastructure for modern software teams. Previously led real-time infrastructure at Asana. Studied computer science and philosophy at Caltech and was part of the South Park Commons founder fellowship.
Raveesh
Ex-product lead @ Netflix, LinkedIn, Haptik.ai. Returning to engineering roots. Exploring ML tooling (but curious about other areas!)
Dhruv
Product manager, Deep Mind and Google Search Tech lead, Google Search and Microsoft Office I want to turn tech research into viable businesses. Know the most about NLP and ML and very interested in robotics, education, energy and space.
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.

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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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