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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Samesh
Exploring ideas in consumer AI (companions/new forms of entertainment). Prev: Applied ML @ Microsoft Research Labs, Founding eng at Footium.club. Undergrad @ BITS Pilani. Builder at heart.
Ev
Co-founder of Moai.cash, building crypto-native financial infrastructure on Telegram.
Augustine
RL PhD at UCL, working on LLMs and reasoning at vmax, prev: AI safety at Redwood research, NeuroAI at CSHL, AI for genomics at lllumina
Sean
exploring realtime video generation, executive functioning copilots. all about unlocking new frontiers. infinite fun. prev building prototyping tools @ Google
Srinath
Srinath is the CEO and co-founder of Regie.ai, building AI-native tools for enterprise content creation. Previously co-founded Onera and was a founding engineer at BloomReach. A Carnegie Mellon PhD in algorithms, he’s spent two decades pushing forward NLP, search, and AI product infrastructure.
Sami
Founder of Echo Chunk AI. Building strategy games that generate themselves.
Daniel
Daniel Tatenko, seasoned detective - focused on leveraging AI to streamline crime reporting, reduce officer workload, and improve public safety by enhancing collaboration between law enforcement and the community.
Hamza
Working on potrerolabs.xyz, a start-up to empower creators and their communities. Previously engineering at Facebook. Love to go skiing, camping and do other outdoor shenanigans.
Joseph
Joe is a Principal Scientist at Adobe and former co-founder and CEO of Facet, an AI-powered image editing platform. Previously co-founded Premise Data, where he served as CTO.
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.

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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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