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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Matthew
PhD in RL, building new ways of using RL + LLMs
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!
Peter
I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.
Shishira
Shishira is a PhD student at UMD working on video compression and understanding. He has experience with labs at Snap and Apple and was also a researcher at IISc Bangalore. Currently passionate about building systems that understand the world!
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Ben
Ben graduated from UIUC with a thesis in high-available compute. He is a full-stack engineer from the transistor to the user-interface with 25 years of experience building Silicon, SaaS, and datacenters at IBM, AMD, and Tesla.
Benjamin
New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!, I spent the last 8 years at Stripe, where I was the founding engineer on Stripe Terminal, drove the acquisition of Index, and post-launch led integration experience and global expansion for the Terminal product. I've run teams large (50) and small, led mobile strategy across Stripe with @shreyas as my mentor, and spent the last 2 years working on Stripe Connect. I'm so excited to be building something new with Rob Cheung, who I met at Venmo.
Jarret
Building something fun and funky to disrupt a super stale market. Previously held senior roles at companies big and small, including mktg, product, operations, biz strat/analytics, partnerships, and customer success.
Aaron
Building crypto stealth co. Former: Partner, @lightspeedvp; Founder, @livingsocial
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.

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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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