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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Jaclyn
Jaclyn worked at Alphabet for 7 years in a variety of operational roles. She helped launch Google Helpouts (a consumer marketplace to deliver expertise over live video) and most recently worked at CapitalG helping portfolio companies scale.
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?"
Feross
Founder & CEO of Socket. Socket helps companies defend their systems against open-source software supply chain attacks. We're growing fast and hiring!
Hamza
Working on potrerolabs.xyz, a start-up to empower creators and their communities. Previously engineering at Facebook. Love to go skiing, camping and do other outdoor shenanigans.
Sara
Previously, I managed product & engineering at Scale AI, where I worked on recommendations, trust & safety, data quality and image/video labeling. Before that, I worked at Facebook & Twitter, and studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon.
Anurag
Anurag is the founder and CEO at Render (render.com), a modern cloud provider. He was previously the eighth employee and Head of Risk at Stripe.
Jitendra
Jiten is the co-founder and CSO of PlanetScale, where he previously served as CEO, helping scale it into a leading serverless database platform. He’s a former engineer at Dropbox and U.S. Digital Service expert, and now advises founders as a board member and executive coach.
Kanjun
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company building human-like general intelligence by evolving self-supervised architectures to tackle human developmental milestones of increasing complexity. Kanjun is interested in human agency, institutions for discovery, social technologies, and understanding what machine learning algorithms might teach us about psychology.
Yogesh
I'm a repeat founder (15+ yrs, 4 ventures) now building an AI-powered passive investing platform. Deep in wealthtech, GTM, and automation. Always up to jam on ideas, collaborate, or sanity-check bold bets—let’s connect.
Trisha
Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21. She was previously an early engineer at Affirm, and subsequently PM. She studied Computer Science at Penn. She loves to paint.

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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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