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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Kanjun
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company building human-like general intelligence by evolving self-supervised architectures to tackle human developmental milestones of increasing complexity. Kanjun is interested in human agency, institutions for discovery, social technologies, and understanding what machine learning algorithms might teach us about psychology.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is interested in climate, reversing the digitalization of identity, and, somewhat reluctantly, crypto. Previously, Jeffrey was a software engineer at Plaid and a student at Harvard (CS/Philosophy 2019). Also, please go surfing with him.
Joe
Joe is the Co-CEO and co-founder of Titan, building the first AI-native investment platform for everyday investors. Previously worked in strategy at McKinsey and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. A Wharton and Huntsman Program graduate, he blends deep financial expertise with a product-driven vision for modern wealth management
Ayush
Focused on AI-augmented reading tools and modeling human behavior. Did a PhD in Computer Science (Machine learning and Recommendation Systems) at Stanford, Masters in Economics; undergrad at IIT Bombay Computer Science. Previously co-founded MoveUp AI and worked at Google. Always open to connecting — reach out to discuss mutual interests!
John
1 molecular biology PhD + 1 decade investigative journalism + 8 years building software for defense and intelligence agencies as head of data science at Primer.ai + founding "Dance Your PhD" = me.
Andrew
I grew up in San Diego and studied CS at Brown. I dropped out to be an early engineer at Snackpass (YC, a16z, Craft) and built out our marketplace infra that scaled from $100k's a year to $120M+ today. I am passionate about DeFi and creating globally inclusive financial products.
Herrick
Interested in broadening access to impactful technology. Previously built things at Affirm, Supermove, and Qualified.
David
Exploring travel community ideas. Mint.com VP Engineering; Co-founder/CTO algorithmic trading hedge fund (10yrs); PGP (encryption startup); several other startups.. From NJ; Moved west for Stanford (CompSci) and stayed in SF.
Jonathan
Jon is a founder and design leader with 15 years of experience building products and managing teams. He has led design at Facebook, Cruise, and Patreon. He co-founded Harvard's design conference and is currently a design advisor to several seed-stage co's.
Jitendra
Jiten is the co-founder and CSO of PlanetScale, where he previously served as CEO, helping scale it into a leading serverless database platform. He’s a former engineer at Dropbox and U.S. Digital Service expert, and now advises founders as a board member and executive coach.

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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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