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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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.
Deon
Deon is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forethought, the leading generative AI platform for customer support automation. Previously served as CEO, scaling the company over seven years. An early engineer at Pure Storage and Dropbox, he brings deep technical expertise to building AI-first enterprise products.
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.
Sumit
EE and CS @ Stanford. Previously CEO/cofounder of Glowstick, an AI-based 3D and animation suite. Before that I was the first AI hire @ All turtles (raised 100m+ for a zoom competitor), and was a search engineer @ laserlike (acq'd by Apple in 2019).
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others
Praveen
Praveen Chekuri is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ascend, the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated payments, financing, & payment operations. Previously he's worked at Hippo, Houseparty & Instacart.
Vartika
Keen interest and experience in scaling technology enabled businesses with global impact that fundamentally change human experiences. Strong suit: 0 to 1, new business or geography launch, scale up journeys. + built two ventures - B2C community commerce platform and a B2B Global product exited to a global SaaS co. + launched and scaled business verticals at Uber Eats and OYO + built solar projects in Asia and Africa as first Indian employee of global leader Stanford GSB and IIT Bombay grad.
Nick
Founder. Ex-DeepMind Veo, Ex-Google APM, Ex-Cambridge ML Mphil
Andrew
Andrew is a Research Scientist at TikTok focused on AI and music. Previously held roles at Scale AI and The Data Institute, and founded MusicAutobot to explore generative music. Former South Park Commons deep learning researcher with a background in ML infrastructure and creative AI.
Grey
Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫

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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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