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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Josh
Josh is a Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he leads research on agentic products. Previously co-founded Gantry to help teams improve ML products with human feedback, and has held research and teaching roles at OpenAI and UC Berkeley. He also co-organizes Full Stack Deep Learning.
Priya
Priya co-founded ZestMoney (India’s earliest BNPL fintech) in 2015. Prior to Zest, Priya was at Wonga.com, a UK fintech company. Priya has had stints in investment banking and consulting. Education - MBA from London Business School, B.Tech from IIT BHU.
Sami
Creator of Echo Chess AI. I build strategy games using AI and Game Design.
Arian
I build early stage products and teams. Worked on scaling at Homejoy and product at Fin. Started Riya Collective and went through YCW20 with my co-founder. Love the SPC community and organized the first community camping/glamping trip.
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).
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.
Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
Wei
Robotics decision making and software architect. Ex Apple SPG, currently building general purpose humanoid robots.
Alex
Alex is the co-founder of Playbook.com, a cloud storage and collaboration tool for creatives. Before that, he studied at CMU and was an engineer at Addepar and Opendoor.
Brent
Brent is an investor and advisor to data startups. Previously he co-founded SafeGraph and helped the company grow to over $20M ARR. Brent was also on the founding team of Siftery (acquired by G2Crowd) and early team of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). He holds B.S. in MS&E and M.B.A. from Stanford University.

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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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