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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Vinay
Building the Next Ad Agency powered by AI Agents accessible to Thousands of Businesses.
Scott
Building Elevate, AI-powered data management for private equity-backed roll-ups
Pacssu
PACSSU, Product Designer & Team Builder. Most recently, VP of Product Design at Ro, now exploring addressing lonlieness.
Damon
Software engineer & technical leader in Games. I've worked in the industry for 15 years at studios ranging from my own startup to AAA. If you're interested in the games space hit me up.
Abishek
Abhishek is the co-founder and CEO of Material Security, where he previously served as CTO. Before that, he was an early product leader at Dropbox.
Nadia
Co-founder and CEO of CodeYam, with a background in product management at Lyft and product marketing at Kamcord (acquired by Lyft). Harvard graduate and former Division I varsity fencer.
Alex
Engineering Manager at Stainless, leading the Apps team. Previously founded Interval (acquired by Meter), helping developers build better internal tools with 10x less code. . Ask ChatGPT
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.
Curtis
2020-12-10: • Working on: Electric Capital’s open source developer report (shipped this morning here), recruiting infrastructure for SPC. • Looking for: Nothing at the moment • Ask about: crypto, devtools, fundraising
Grace
Data infrastructure + developer tooling at Palantir. Explored devtools + dating while at SPC. Have now found my way to crypto :)

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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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