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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Leah
Leah was the engineering leader for Slack's Enterprise products, building out Grid and growing the team 10x. Prior to that she co-founded zumper.com and worked at Google as an engineer and analyst.
Kanishk
Formerly special projects at Affirm and EE #3 at Kojo. Interested in cycling and reading science fiction. Optimistic about the world.
Michael
Previous founder of Biodock AI, studied CS @ Stanford, dropped out for the Thiel Fellowship
Adrienne
Adrienne is currently investing (real estate, data + dev tools) and exploring new ideas in the search fund / investing space. Previously, Adrienne was a Product Manager designing the in-car experience at Tesla, an APM at Google, and an associate at Bridgewater.
Jon
'- Toronto → SF → Beijing → SD → SF → DC - i really loved being a part of early Coursera, and i see so much of that at SPC. glad to be here. - currently exploring NFTs, web3, developer productivity - i'm very deep on frontend engineering (mostly the back of the frontend) as well as developer productivity and engineering culture.
Ryan
Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/
Amit
M.S. Biomedical Engineering; Experience in Computational Biology, Data Science and Product Development; Past Founder: IntelliGene (serving NCI designated cancer centers; acquired by Invitae); Past Experience: ORIEN Cancer Hospital Network, Merck, Invitae, Rosetta
Marc
Advising AI startup founding teams. Standing up an IB focused exclusively on AI, frontier & deep tech. Co-founder & CEO of General Magic, an Apple spin-off credited with creating the smartphone. Also a satellite company, climate & cleantech.
Bjarni
Founder of Globalized Health. Raised in the Faroe Islands, based in New York. Passionate about the outdoors and anything health/fitness. Trying to make a dent in the world.
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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