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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Jonathan
I'm a founder and software engineer with previous experience in legal tech and consumer products. I've worked at Google, Cisco, and Walmart Labs. I also make music.
Reginald
Previously an engineer at Affirm, Growth EM at Motive, and EIR at HVF Labs. Working on startup building an access management platform.
Erin
Erin Cafaro is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing, winning with the U.S. women’s eight team at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games. She is one of the most decorated rowers in U.S. history.
Andreas
Andreas is the co-founder and COO of Pulley, building the first dedicated platform for construction permitting. Previously served as Chief of Staff at Procore and led strategy at Honest Buildings (acquired by Procore).
Hanson
Hanson is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he is an early member of the Codex team. Previously co-founded Arcwise, a low-code ML and analytics platform, and led ML infrastructure at Meta, where he built internal systems supporting millions of QPS.
Evan
Partner at South Park Commons. Formerly @dropbox, @GreylockVC, @shopkick, Loopt (YC S05). SF local and lover of life's quirks. Grab time with me: https://calendly.com/evan-spc
Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.
Christina
Christina is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the leading trust management platform for security and compliance. Previously led product for Dropbox Paper, co-founded Nebula Labs, and taught at SVA. Earlier in her career, she was on the investment team at Union Square Ventures.
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+.
Henry
Henry has deep experience building AI products and AI research, previously co-founding Jenni.ai as the technical founder & CTO. At Jenni, he scaled the startup to over $7M ARR, serving 300K monthly active users. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, with published research in neural networks, NLP, and neural music generation., I am interested in AI and building startups. My prior research focuses on training neural networks to generate music and natural language. In 2019, I co-founded Jenni, an AI academic writing assistant, and scaled it from $0 to $6M+ MRR.

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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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