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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Olivia
Currently building something in the generative AI space. Previously a data leader at Stitch Fix and Uber creating customer growth and marketplace technology.
Simon
Simon is a founder (technical and GTM) exploring a few ideas in applying AI/LLMs to future-of-work and traveltech. Ex-Peloton (80th employee), Palantir, and Stanford CS. More about him in his Cofounder memo (https://bit.ly/cfmemo)
Yash
Drummer, cryptomaniac, and big fan of doggos. Building in web3 with andrew duca. Ex-robinhood, ex-cto of duffl (yc w20), kleiner perkins fellow '21
Malcolm
Malcolm was the first employee at Asana and worked on many pieces of the infrastructure there. Before that he was on the Android team at Google and wrote much of the initial version of Gmail for Android.
Nirmal
Currently exploring AI & marketplaces. Nirmal was formerly an ML engineer at Abnormal Security, where he developed ML systems to detect account takeover attacks at scale. He graduated with a CS degree from Northwestern in 2021.
Bhav
Passionate about computer vision, building a large-scale video understanding platform. Prev: Google Research, CMU
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.
Adam
Software engineer and entrepreneur with +15y of experience, particularly in the IoT and cloud. From building startups like Intellistreets to leading teams at Google. Now focusing on consulting and exploring new ideas around IoT & SW Supply Chain Security.
Christian
deep tech designer
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.

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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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