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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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.
Jason
JJ is the co-founder and COO of Tezi AI, building an autonomous recruiting agent powered by AI. Previously led product and design at Instacart, Thumbtack, and Earnest, with deep expertise in consumer experiences and team building. He brings 15+ years of design leadership across fintech, marketplaces, and productivity platforms.
Charlie
Charlie is the co-founder of Expo, a platform for building universal native apps using JavaScript. Previously co-founded Quora and led early engineering teams at Facebook.
Amy
CTO and co-founder of Fanhouse, where she helped creators earn over $20M.. Previously a software engineer at Robinhood and founder fellow at South Park Commons. Stanford CS grad with a background in systems engineering and creator tools.
Amit
Co-founder of Luma AI, building cutting-edge tools at the intersection of computer vision and 3D content. Previously led camera and systems engineering at Apple.
Bryan
CTO of Centari. We help with documents.
Natalie
Hi!! I'm the Operations Associate here at South Park Commons, super excited to be here!
David
Exploring travel community ideas. Mint.com VP Engineering; Co-founder/CTO algorithmic trading hedge fund (10yrs); PGP (encryption startup); several other startups.. From NJ; Moved west for Stanford (CompSci) and stayed in SF.
Ani
Ani is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Orbital, building the ZoomInfo for companies selling to SMBs and midmarket. Previously led engineering at Cisco Meraki and held product and GTM roles at Polymail and Tivamo. Background in CS and business from Rice University.
Josh
CTO at Generally Intelligent, an AI research company focused building human-like intelligent systems. Angel investor. Always happy to help or chat about AI, ML, or anything I've worked on previously (crypto, VR, finance, manufacturing, gaming, etc)

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What our members do


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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