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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Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
Hamidah
I'm a research affiliate at the Topos Institute helping develop CatColab, a structured model editor. I'm interested in how we can meaningfully document and make sense of procedural knowledge (e.g., with Git). I'm also a non-resident fellow at IFP where I focus on high-skilled immigration policy.
Chris
Christopher Kim is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is dedicated to identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing transformative solutions to improve health outcomes.
Noah
Noah is an applied AI lead at OpenAI, focused on turning frontier models into real-world impact. Previously co-founded Eureka and led product at Forward after starting out as a software engineer. Former South Park Commons fellow.
Zo
Liberal arts student turned AI engineer motivated about using technology to enable entrepreneurship. Spent ~3 years at Spotify working on generative audio and recommendation systems. Spent longer deciding on my favourite sushi. 🥢
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Matthew
PhD in RL, building new ways of using RL + LLMs
Henry
Henry has deep experience building AI products and AI research, previously co-founding Jenni.ai as the technical founder & CTO. At Jenni, he scaled the startup to over $7M ARR, serving 300K monthly active users. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, with published research in neural networks, NLP, and neural music generation., I am interested in AI and building startups. My prior research focuses on training neural networks to generate music and natural language. In 2019, I co-founded Jenni, an AI academic writing assistant, and scaled it from $0 to $6M+ MRR.
Dwight
Founder, Chairman of Board for Whisper.ai. We are a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing.
Alex
Former head of go-to-market at Zoox (self-driving startup acquired by Amazon), and ex-management consultant. Interested in the future of mobility, AI/ML, meditation, and book recommendations. Studied Math & CS at Harvey Mudd.

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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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