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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Jason
Jason is the co-founder and CEO of Slab. He is also BDFL for the open source project Quill and formerly the founder of Stypi (sold to Salesforce). He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
William
Currently exploring the intersection of generative audio and artists rights. Previously, I helped build Woven Science, an evergreen fund and venture studio supporting a portfolio of 25 mental health companies. xGoogle, xFulbright. Before that spent too much time at Google. I enjoy working in spaces between art and science, and spend spare time reading, writing, surfing, and skiing.
Raghavendra
RVP is the co-founder and CEO of Tezi, building the world's first fully autonomous AI recruiting agent. Previously led engineering and research at Covariant and served as CTO at Thumbtack.
Grace
Data infrastructure + developer tooling at Palantir. Explored devtools + dating while at SPC. Have now found my way to crypto :)
Sahil
Sahil is a customer-focused engineer with an extensive background in AI, recommender systems, and marketplaces. He has served an engineer and an eng leader at Facebook and Uber, working on News Feed, Video Growth, as well as Uber’s Dispatching Algorithms.
Rajshekar
Building the non-invasive Neuralink at axionclick.com. 7+ yrs in HCI. Published 14 papers at top venues including CHI. 2 pending patents. Prev built AR/VR systems for surgical robots at Intuitive.
Charlie
Founder, artist, & product leader building something new 🐣 Wrote distraction-blocker app SelfControl, started an ed-tech company, sold to Workday, worked on new product strategy there for 5 years Last 2 years: building big steel fire-shooting sculptures 🔥
Ciro
Founder. Went from bootstrap to acquisition to IPO in 5 years. Really into startups, ML, NLP, Data and strange music.
Deepak
I am an Assistant Professor in CS at UIUC. I research AI-driven networking spanning Earth and space. Currently exploring the AI startup space.
Jinjing
AI entrepreneur and ex-Google DeepMind tech lead, passionate about building AI agents that tackle real-world problems—automating the tedious, unlocking the impossible.

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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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