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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Alex
Using AI to make phone service more affordable than ever before. Former hedge fund quant. Data nerd and occasional stand-up comic.
Michael
I'm a full-stack engineer based in SF currently building AI tools for executive coaches at Encore. I also dabble in 3D printing/ electronics. Previously at LiveRamp, Fin, TripAdvisor, Brown
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
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.
Bhav
Passionate about computer vision, building a large-scale video understanding platform. Prev: Google Research, CMU
Omar
Always building. Previously engineering @ Alchemy, computer science @ Stanford (systems undergrad + AI masters dropout).
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.
Sashank
6+ years of launching games, with experience designing and tuning complex in-game economies. Currently exploring infra to help games & consumer apps scale. Excited to swap learnings around monetizing consumer apps :) (ex-BCG, King, MPL)
Jitendra
Jiten is the co-founder and CSO of PlanetScale, where he previously served as CEO, helping scale it into a leading serverless database platform. He’s a former engineer at Dropbox and U.S. Digital Service expert, and now advises founders as a board member and executive coach.
Moiz
Co-founder and CTO at Momentum, a Slack-native sales platform. Previously a founding engineer at Blameless and backend infrastructure lead at Sauce Labs and AWS. Brings deep expertise in systems engineering and developer tools, with roots in academic research at the University of Kansas.

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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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