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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John
Machine learning researcher and quant trader. My professional work and academic research focuses on building robust and reliable machine learning systems. Previously built businesses in electricity markets. Once distracted by crypto. UC Berkeley PhD in machine learning. Stanford CS/EE degrees.
Jon
Founder working in consumer IRL social and AI. Ex-Stack Overflow and love all things community building.
Dinkar
Previously, Director of Product at Meta and enthusiastic about applications of AI
Rob
into film, computation, writing, social systems. previously founding engineer at substack, founding engineer at fin.com, early team / technical lead at venmo
Liam
Liam is a technology entrepreneur building his next venture. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of ProcureNow, acquired by OpenGov, which was later acquired by Cox Enterprises for $1.8 billion. Liam holds an MBA from Harvard and BA from Pomona.
Alex
Alex is the co-founder of Playbook.com, a cloud storage and collaboration tool for creatives. Before that, he studied at CMU and was an engineer at Addepar and Opendoor.
Yevgeniy
Grew up in SF, worked in software startups since I was in high school from developer tools to fighting crime. Now, I’m fixing data on the web
Avi
Avi is the former Head of Product at Neeva.com -- the world's first ad-free, private search engine. Prior to Neeva, he was at YouTube where he built & led a new ads business focused on shopping & commercial actions.
Peter
I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.
Ashish
Solved Security, Data governance, ML problems at Google, Intel and startup. Always up for a chat about tech and business.

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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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