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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Eddie
Designer / Engineer combo! Worked on novel interfaces at Humane and iOS/Desktop at Slack. Studied CS at Brown and did design stuff at RISD. Former Hack@Brown co-director. Excited about the new interfaces AI will enable us to build.
Seth
Founder and CEO of Riffusion, building at the frontier of AI and music. Previously founded Hardline and Yodel, and was Head of Product at Shape. Princeton alum with a background in molecular biology and global health.
Alexandra
Alexandra is the founder of Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23), building internal tools for recommender systems teams. Alexandra's been a founding member for two MLOps startups (Gantry and SigOpt), and prior to that she worked in fashion tech (Polyvore and Rent the Runway).
Dhruv
Dhruv is an ex-Googler with experience working on Machine Learning problems involving language and privacy. He likes thinking about big problems from first principles, appreciates thoughtful design in tech, and enjoys writing.
Chris
Christopher Kim is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is dedicated to identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing transformative solutions to improve health outcomes.
Arnaud
Arnaud is an expert in AI that worked at Google Research on language models and led search at Faire. He's exploring new ideas with his cofounder.
Priya
Aspiring Founder. I want to make things better using technology, typography, and color. ex-Apple.
Charles
Design prototyper and co-founder of Frisson Labs. We're building AI companions that you'll cherish! In my free time I love designing board games and nerding out about history.
Gloria
Gloria is the founder and CEO of Siteline, bringing modern financial tools to the construction industry. Previously Stripe’s first PM hire, where she worked on Checkout, Dashboard, and Risk/Identity.
Henrik
Impact focused product leader with a passion for design and technology. During my career I've built companies and products from zero to one as well as been through scaling as an operator and executive.

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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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