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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Matt
Matt is working full-time on starting a climate-tech company. Previously, he was Head of Engineering at Studio and an ML Scientist at Tesla Autopilot. He spends his free time playing music, skateboarding, and nerding out about space travel and TTRPGs.
Dakota
Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.
Lavanya
Exploring solving operationally complex problems with technology. Previously at Culdesac, as General Manager of the first car-free community built from scratch in the US. Passionate about transportation, health care, and real estate. Expertise in growth, ops, marketing, partnerships
Henry
Exploring ideas in the AI + SRE world. Prev cold emailed my way to an early eng job @ Bubble, wound up leading product on Bubble's Infra + AI teams, then left once the company had 5x'd in size. Applied Math/CS @ Harvard. Occasional semi-pro musician.
Arushi
Previously Computer Science @ Stanford University and Infrastructure @ Reddit; interested in AI / ML applications in creative technology and artistic marketplaces, security and infrastructure engineering, improving productivity for builders, composition and sound design
Jack
Roboticist and quantitative trader. Led Skydio's Motion Planning & Controls Team before developing proprietary trading algorithms for electricity markets. Stanford CS/EE graduate.
Charlie
Founder, artist, & product leader building something new 🐣 Wrote distraction-blocker app SelfControl, started an ed-tech company, sold to Workday, worked on new product strategy there for 5 years Last 2 years: building big steel fire-shooting sculptures 🔥
Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others
Ning
Ning came from Meta FAIR where he worked as a research engineer on speech/text translation and multimodal LLM. Ning is exploring the intersection of AI applications and SMS platforms.

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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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