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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Scott
Former finance leader and management consultant, exploring ideas as an affiliated co-founder.
Lakshman
I'm one of those true believers in crypto you might've read about. Building a 10 year career in the space. Currently focused on building out Ethereum 2.0 at the Ethereum Foundation. I write here: https://www.lakshmansankar.com/#/
Amjad
Amjad Masad is the CEO and co-founder of Replit, an online coding platform that aims to make coding more accessible and social.
Dinkar
Previously, Director of Product at Meta and enthusiastic about applications of AI
Kashish
CS grad from IIT Delhi turned IAS officer (career civil servant in India) turned AI startup founder. Excited to innovate and collaborate!
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
Marco
Marco began his career in academia, earning a PhD in CS at ETH Zurich before moving to Berkeley for his postdoc. From there, he became an early engineer at Pure Storage and other startups before transitioning into engineering leadership, most recently serving as VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence. He also spent time working on incubations with Sutter Hill Ventures, giving him deep experience across the entire company-building lifecycle, from ideation to scale.
Hamidah
I'm a research affiliate at the Topos Institute helping develop CatColab, a structured model editor. I'm interested in how we can meaningfully document and make sense of procedural knowledge (e.g., with Git). I'm also a non-resident fellow at IFP where I focus on high-skilled immigration policy.
Kenan
Outdoorsy backend Software Engineer focused on privacy and security. I have worked the last 3 years on Istio and cloud infrastructure.
Aman
I'm a licensed pilot and love flying Cessnas in the NorCal area. I've got about 10 years of experience working on 0 to 1 projects at Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta's internal innovation lab.

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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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