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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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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Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
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!
Pierre
Hi, I’m Pierre Ettori, a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling Cloud and SaaS products. I’ve led product and go-to-market efforts at companies like Google and Temporal, and I was the CEO and co-founder of Styra, creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. I was also part of Nicira’s journey to acquisition by VMware. As a former professional athlete turned tech leader, I bring energy, focus, and a passion for helping businesses adopt transformative technologies to build better products, faster.
Kevin
Kevin is the founder and CEO of Centari, building next-generation information tools for legal and deal teams. Previously served as Head of Legal at Kasa and Deputy General Counsel at Hamilton Zanze. A UC Berkeley Law grad, he blends deep legal expertise with startup operational experience.
Raymond
ex-uber with 5 yoe in building products centered in recommendations and matching algos.
Dhruv
Product manager, Deep Mind and Google Search Tech lead, Google Search and Microsoft Office I want to turn tech research into viable businesses. Know the most about NLP and ML and very interested in robotics, education, energy and space.
Faraz
Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.
Seth
Founder and CEO of Riffusion, building at the frontier of AI and music. Previously founded Hardline and Yodel, and was Head of Product at Shape. Princeton alum with a background in molecular biology and global health.
Jason
Jason is the co-founder and CEO of Slab. He is also BDFL for the open source project Quill and formerly the founder of Stypi (sold to Salesforce). He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Sai
Prev. Insurance Broker, Auditor, and VC Product Manager. Currently building in Insurance x AI!

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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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