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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Vineet
Entrepreneur. Previously co-founded IDfy, CredRight and Gaboli. Looking forward to my -1 to 0 journey with SPC.
Samantha
Samantha is a software engineer with previous experience in fintech & AI. She is currently working on projects in the crypto space.
Rohit
'- Founding ML Engineer [Compliance & AI Voice Calling] @ Salient - Leading game engine & tooling development [TFT / League of Legends] @ Riot Games - SQL Server & Telemetry @ Microsoft - EECS @ UC Berkeley big car fan (currently own a ND Miata)!
Jonathan
Jon is a founder and design leader with 15 years of experience building products and managing teams. He has led design at Facebook, Cruise, and Patreon. He co-founded Harvard's design conference and is currently a design advisor to several seed-stage co's.
Shivam
Hey there! I’m Shivam, Co-founder of SurgeGrowth, building B2B SaaS, a monetization co-pilot. I enjoy open discussions and love to chat about modern tech and tools, and the art of turning ideas into scalable solutions !
David
Founder of Shark Tooth - a Biotech developing a treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 1A, which my son was diagnosed with 1.5 yrs ago. I'm also an angel investor & a SaaS startup advisor. Previously I was the 1st GTM leader at Notion & Typeform.
Franck
Engineering leader with deep expertise in Web3 and large scale infrastructure. - VP of eng. at a DeFi crypto startup (Origin Protocol). Built smart contracts handling hundreds of millions of dollars. - Built search infra from ground up at Dropbox pre-IPO as tech lead. - Founded and managed the team that built the first Content ID system at YouTube pre Google acquisition. - Early engineer at PayPal, TLM for the Merchant facing engineering team
Apurv
Apurv Mehra is a Computer Engineer and Researcher. Past Microsoft Research and IIITD
Landon
former head of research @ character.ai now building in consumer ai
Jingwei
Building withpanorama.com. Formerly Staff Eng / TLM @ Lyft, Cash App. Spent thousands of hours reading, researching, and applying practices on group dynamics and individual psychology. Meditate a lot. Based in SF, sometimes in LA.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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