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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Shivam
Hey there! I’m Shivam, Co-founder of SurgeGrowth, building B2B SaaS, a monetization co-pilot. I enjoy open discussions and love to chat about modern tech and tools, and the art of turning ideas into scalable solutions !
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is interested in climate, reversing the digitalization of identity, and, somewhat reluctantly, crypto. Previously, Jeffrey was a software engineer at Plaid and a student at Harvard (CS/Philosophy 2019). Also, please go surfing with him.
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.
Steffen
I'm an ML engineer that's worked on speech recognition (training embedded acoustic models, semi-supervised learning, accented languages). I also love building random projects with friends like a 3D version of Zoom, a collapsible water filled dumbbell, and an augmented reality NFT collection. Right now I'm exploring LLM's + ecommerce and learning how to breakdance, Same as current
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
Lucas
As a designer and engineer, I’ve led the development of products across industrial robotics, life sciences automation, an spatial computing. Focused on building human-spatial systems products for the built world.
Scott
Co-founder @ Limo. Previously led Product Engineering at Rockset. Stanford CS
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.
Tiantian
Deeply care about Alzheimer's, prevention, and clinical research. Formerly product at Verily/Google. Built world's first ever mosquito factory.
Scott
Scott was a senior engineer at Addepar and studied at Harvard. He was the absolute winner of IOI 2014.

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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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