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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Kunal
Kunal is a Senior Engineering Manager at Coinbase, leading Base Ads and the development of onchain growth protocols. Previously co-founded Spindl (acquired by Coinbase), and held engineering leadership roles at Airbnb and Facebook.
Daniel
CEO and co-founder of DoubleLoop, helping product teams build metrics-driven strategies. Previously led product at MDsave and GoodGuide (acquired by UL), with earlier roles at CBS Interactive and CNET. Brings two decades of experience in product leadership and data-informed development.
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.
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!
Herrick
Interested in broadening access to impactful technology. Previously built things at Affirm, Supermove, and Qualified.
Brandon
Exploring AI x Gaming ex: 100Thieves, AngelList
Yusuf
I like to build time machines! I'm a software engineer with experience computer vision research and developer tools. I'm currently founding NatML, building cross-platform machine learning and media tools for developing interactive software.
Daanish
Born in Kashmir. Left at 16 to attend Stanford, where I had the good luck of learning from some of the world's great thinkers. Founded a hacker-artist collective and an edtech co. Now shaping my next adventure. Ping me about books or nn pretraining!
Shishira
Shishira is a PhD student at UMD working on video compression and understanding. He has experience with labs at Snap and Apple and was also a researcher at IISc Bangalore. Currently passionate about building systems that understand the world!
Raghavendra
RVP is the co-founder and CEO of Tezi, building the world's first fully autonomous AI recruiting agent. Previously led engineering and research at Covariant and served as CTO at Thumbtack.

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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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