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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Arjun
Worked as a software engineer on the platform and tools team at Facebook. Zillow and Microsoft before that. Explored angel investing + engineering at startups including Detour, Thistle, Dandelion Chocolate, Taika and others.
Henry
Exploring ideas in the AI + SRE world. Prev cold emailed my way to an early eng job @ Bubble, wound up leading product on Bubble's Infra + AI teams, then left once the company had 5x'd in size. Applied Math/CS @ Harvard. Occasional semi-pro musician.
William
Founder & CEO of Mori - building in the era of digital history.
Maksim
Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org
Allen
A bit on my background: - Born & raised in Minnesota - Most recently, Chief of Staff at Zip ($2.2B procurement SaaS) - Formerly, PE Investor at Bain Capital, Econ grad at Harvard & bootstrapped DTC founder. - I like backpacking, golfing, and recently got into motorcycling!
Chandan
Chandan is a product leader and ex-cofounder (Adda247) with experience across Edtech, Insurance, Logistics & Internet. An IIM Ahmedabad & IIT BHU (CS) alum, he's now building Kinzy—an AI-powered edutainment platform making screen time productive for kids.
Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
Vivek
Vivek has been an AI researcher at Google, working on applied AI problems in healthcare. Earlier, he worked at Facebook AI research on multimodal assistant systems.
Nagendra
Nagendra is a technical guy, who loves building products. Earlier he worked with Facebook and lead the execution of messenger platform. Currently working on Helix - Support for Modern Teams, powered by AI, assisted by community.
Shahmeer
Interested in crypto/ML/climate. Engineer. Was prev. at Robinhood (2018-2022)

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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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