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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Alex
Currently exploring new areas. Formerly first PM and first of many other roles at Cresta going from 0 -> unicorn and prior to Cresta, PM @ Google on Photos, Lens, and Search.
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.
Farhan
Builder with background taking recommendation, analysis and communication systems from 0->public co. Interested in socially impactful tech to promote user agency and access.
Bhav
Passionate about computer vision, building a large-scale video understanding platform. Prev: Google Research, CMU
Robert
Builder, working on applied AI. Previously: AI lead @ Front. Fun fact: ex semi-pro gamer
Jarret
Building something fun and funky to disrupt a super stale market. Previously held senior roles at companies big and small, including mktg, product, operations, biz strat/analytics, partnerships, and customer success.
William
Technical founder who builds from -1→0->1. Created ML-powered document platforms at AngelList, architected loan trading systems at ORSNN, and led engineering teams at Amazon. Solves complex challenges with Go, AWS, and AI to deliver market-ready solutions.
Kevin
Studied CS @ UWaterloo, learned to be a SWE. Spent past 5 years as a PM. Marketplace PM @ Lime (scooters, Series A -> D), then founding PM @ Kikoff (fintech, Seed -> Series B). Working to make the world more abundant with tools that give humans leverage.
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.
Alexandra
Alexandra is the founder of Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23), building internal tools for recommender systems teams. Alexandra's been a founding member for two MLOps startups (Gantry and SigOpt), and prior to that she worked in fashion tech (Polyvore and Rent the Runway).

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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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