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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Landon
former head of research @ character.ai now building in consumer ai
Jingwei
Building withpanorama.com. Formerly Staff Eng / TLM @ Lyft, Cash App. Spent thousands of hours reading, researching, and applying practices on group dynamics and individual psychology. Meditate a lot. Based in SF, sometimes in LA.
Augustine
RL PhD at UCL, working on LLMs and reasoning at vmax, prev: AI safety at Redwood research, NeuroAI at CSHL, AI for genomics at lllumina
Dhruv
Dhruv is an ex-Googler with experience working on Machine Learning problems involving language and privacy. He likes thinking about big problems from first principles, appreciates thoughtful design in tech, and enjoys writing.
Kun
Serial Entrepreneur, Autonomy Enthusiast, autonomous driving and robotics background.
Michael
I'm working with Bao Van to build a future of work startup, tackling skilled talent shortages. You can find me at a Barry's class or the newest trending TikTok restaurant.
Andrew
TLDR: - Previously Founder & CEO of Nova (acq. by Handshake) - Led generative AI products at Handshake - Write the TLDR AI & Founders newsletters (1M subs total - tldr.tech/ai) - Background in AI research, product, engineering, data, and investing from Google AI, Citadel, AQR, Sequoia, Branch - Angel investor in Anthropic, Pika, Mercury, Replit, Alchemy, Uniswap, Runway ML, Varda Space, Pinecone, Coframe, MultiOn, Decagon, Gumloop, Haize Labs, Mercor, Goodfire AI, Etched, and many more - Undergrad at UC Berkeley (CS & Stats), grad school at Stanford (AI) Love sports (basketball, tennis, golf, triathlon, weightlifting), puzzles & strategy games, cooking, history, and traveling. But most importantly, I love meeting, learning from, and working with amazing people.
Deon
Deon is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forethought, the leading generative AI platform for customer support automation. Previously served as CEO, scaling the company over seven years. An early engineer at Pure Storage and Dropbox, he brings deep technical expertise to building AI-first enterprise products.
Achyut
Current: Working on making data more accessible in web3. Previously: Machine Learning at RelyanceAI; Data Scientist at Amazon, PayPal. Love experimenting with productivity hacks
Tom
ex-DeepMind researcher interested in interpretability, data curation & foundation models (especially in new domains)

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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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