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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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).
Trisha
Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21. She was previously an early engineer at Affirm, and subsequently PM. She studied Computer Science at Penn. She loves to paint.
Ning
Full stack engineer and designer. I previously co-founded a health insurance marketplace, and before that worked as a engineer and data scientist at a few social networks.
Aman
Building my second venture focused on Software Testing Automation with AI Agents. Previously Co-founded, TurboHire and scaled it to over $1m in ARR. Earlier worked as a Product Manager & Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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.
Shahmeer
Interested in crypto/ML/climate. Engineer. Was prev. at Robinhood (2018-2022)
Joshua
Building Vectorsmith, a new kind of model and vector store for truly intelligent search. Previously 9.5 years at Asana, prior to that a lot of music.
Purvanshi
Create engaging videos in one click (Lica) | Applied Scientist , Building Lica (https://lica.world/), text to video creation | applied scientist
Greg
Previously at Dropbox, leading the teams for Mypy (static types for Python) and engineer collaboration tools. Before that Quora, Ksplice, Harvard math, and MIT computer science
Danny
Immunologist and data scientist building therapeutics that matter.

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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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