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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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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Amjad
Amjad Masad is the CEO and co-founder of Replit, an online coding platform that aims to make coding more accessible and social.
Catherine
Catherine is a member of technical staff at Anthropic. Prior to that she was a senior program associate at Open Philanthropy and a software engineer at Google Brain and OpenAI. Previously: computational neuroscience (left PhD program with a master's degree), computer science, and psychology + cognitive science (MIT)
Dakota
Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.
Andrew
Andrew is a Research Scientist at TikTok focused on AI and music. Previously held roles at Scale AI and The Data Institute, and founded MusicAutobot to explore generative music. Former South Park Commons deep learning researcher with a background in ML infrastructure and creative AI.
Reginald
Previously an engineer at Affirm, Growth EM at Motive, and EIR at HVF Labs. Working on startup building an access management platform.
Amit
Co-founder of Luma AI, building cutting-edge tools at the intersection of computer vision and 3D content. Previously led camera and systems engineering at Apple.
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Raghav
Software engineer and technical leader. Formerly: co-founded lightpage.com, led the AI engineering team at Airtable to first public launch, led internal deployment of Presto at Meta. He has a Masters in distributed systems from Princeton.
Sam
Building Sentience...
Mike
Building KOAH - Ad network for LLM applications https://koahlabs.com

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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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