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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Nicole
Neuropsyhologist, increasing QOL
Alvaro
Currently co-founder and CEO at Orb, building next-gen billing infrastructure for modern software companies. Previously engineering leader at Asana and a member of South Park Commons. Alvaro holds dual degrees from MIT and is passionate about product-focused engineering and infrastructure that scales.
Sashank
6+ years of launching games, with experience designing and tuning complex in-game economies. Currently exploring infra to help games & consumer apps scale. Excited to swap learnings around monetizing consumer apps :) (ex-BCG, King, MPL)
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.
Wenda
AI + Robotics, Ex Apple, CMU
Kyle
Founder - Inflight.co, prev design at Airchat, Facebook, Tinder.
Adam
Former Product Head at Palantir, multi-time CPO, and owner of First Principles, a product agency for emerging tech companies. Adam is the author and host of www.emergentproduct.com and is passionate about solving complex missions and AI-First products.
Curtis
2020-12-10: • Working on: Electric Capital’s open source developer report (shipped this morning here), recruiting infrastructure for SPC. • Looking for: Nothing at the moment • Ask about: crypto, devtools, fundraising
Danny
Immunologist and data scientist building therapeutics that matter.
Hanson
Hanson is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he is an early member of the Codex team. Previously co-founded Arcwise, a low-code ML and analytics platform, and led ML infrastructure at Meta, where he built internal systems supporting millions of QPS.

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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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