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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Stehl
I was employee <10 at Writer.com and most recently spent ~6 years at VaynerX (Gary Vee's holding company). I'm currently building Quinn, a relationship intelligence platform. Econ @Columbia. Hobbies: Brazilian jiu-jitsu, fishing, hosting dinner parties
Zack
Freelance ML consultant; especially interested in research into reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, and AI safety. Also deeply thinking about governmental dysfunction + what to do about it, but so far no breakthroughs :/
Vartika
Keen interest and experience in scaling technology enabled businesses with global impact that fundamentally change human experiences. Strong suit: 0 to 1, new business or geography launch, scale up journeys. + built two ventures - B2C community commerce platform and a B2B Global product exited to a global SaaS co. + launched and scaled business verticals at Uber Eats and OYO + built solar projects in Asia and Africa as first Indian employee of global leader Stanford GSB and IIT Bombay grad.
Priya
Aspiring Founder. I want to make things better using technology, typography, and color. ex-Apple.
Germain
Germain is a franco-american who studied philosophy, volunteered with Doctors without Borders, founded 2 start-ups and helped scale Chargebee from $0.5M to $100M+. He is working with Franck on the next big thing. Germain is a father and a husband.
Thomas
Previously was at Ramp, ready to build!
Omar
Web3 FF3 exploring gaming - https://www.omarmezenner.com
Henrik
Impact focused product leader with a passion for design and technology. During my career I've built companies and products from zero to one as well as been through scaling as an operator and executive.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is interested in climate, reversing the digitalization of identity, and, somewhat reluctantly, crypto. Previously, Jeffrey was a software engineer at Plaid and a student at Harvard (CS/Philosophy 2019). Also, please go surfing with him.
Tiantian
Deeply care about Alzheimer's, prevention, and clinical research. Formerly product at Verily/Google. Built world's first ever mosquito factory.

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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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