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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Brandon
I’m the co-founder and CEO of Vori, a modern operating system for the grocery industry that is transforming the inventory management process for retailers and suppliers through user-friendly technology. Prior to Vori, I started Greo, a YC-backed startup that facilitated troll-free dialogue about social issues. Before that I worked at the White House and attended Stanford, where I was the student body Vice President.
Arun
2x Founder SmartPhones, Fintech, AI Samsung, Startups, Govt, Non-Profits
Arthur
Arthur is the co-founder of Dataland.
Mikhail
Waterloo and Google taught me engineering, while my journey to world championships in skydiving taught me human nature, high performance and leadership. I'm an explorer at heart and love the questions: "is it possible?" and "can we do it?"
Cinjon
I have a PhD in machine learning focusing on vision. I also have a deep understanding and experience in crypto. And I run a circus studio in Dumbo. Go to cinjon.com for writings.
Shahbaz
Shahbaz founded Sunain, an audio data research lab focused on creating the world’s most emotion-rich, diverse, high-fidelity audio datasets, and the evaluation suites to benchmark models. Prior to that, he worked at Apple, NASA and EA Sports.
Bryson
Interested in building intelligent systems for the physical world. Formerly led autonomy teams at NASA JPL and Relativity Space full stack from real-time firmware up to large scale ML pipelines.
Shreyaans
Applied Physicist by profession, built quantum systems, specifically for superconducting qubits. Returned back to India to contribute to Indian space mission. Now building the backbone of space based optical quantum communication.
Steve
Business minded engineer, data scientist, and management consultant. Most recently led engineering 0 to 1 at a healthcare + fintech start up. Previously built algorithms and infra. at Lyft, and consulted for multiple Fortune 500s at Mastercard (Customer Success). Currently exploring data and Gen. AI. Global nomad: Lived in Canada, China, Iowa, Maryland, DC, Paris, and Uganda. Studied Math & Economics @ Harvard. Passionate about the environment, health, and fitness. LGBTQ+.
Shannon
Looking for the main quest. Prev: Researcher on geopolitics of AI at GovAI and Oxford & before that: PM at Scale AI for autonomous vehicle data. Oxford MBA, Berkeley Development Econ & Data Science. Based in SF, often found in London and Shanghai.

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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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