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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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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Maksim
Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org
Jiachen
I pioneer the creation of autonomous agents for the long-term needs of diverse real-world applications. Ex-DeepMind, LLNL, Electronic Arts. PhD in Machine learning at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Arjun
Diving into the post-purchase CX space for hardware companies. Currently, business analyst at McKinsey. Formerly, software and product at Uber, startups. BS, MS in Computer Science from Columbia
Dhruv
Product manager, Deep Mind and Google Search Tech lead, Google Search and Microsoft Office I want to turn tech research into viable businesses. Know the most about NLP and ML and very interested in robotics, education, energy and space.
Thomas
Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.
Aaron
Building crypto stealth co. Former: Partner, @lightspeedvp; Founder, @livingsocial
Alex
Engineering Manager at Stainless, leading the Apps team. Previously founded Interval (acquired by Meter), helping developers build better internal tools with 10x less code. . Ask ChatGPT
Nic
Former SPC staff & professional sailor. A background in building ops, sales, & marketing stacks at very early stage companies.
Archa
Currently founder of Channel Labs, previously co-founder of Insight Browser (acquired by Scale AI) and CTO at Milo. Earlier, she was a software engineer at Calico and Uber. Holds degrees from Stanford (AI/biocomputation) and Carnegie Mellon (ECE/CS).
Tejas
Math/CS guy currently working on AI for insurance. Always open to discussions about AI, crypto(-logy/currency), and anything algebraic!

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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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