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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Justin
Justin most recently led Growth at Rockset, and worked on Google's Cloud Security team prior. He was also the Founder/CEO of Xenia Gifts. Justin graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration.
Neeraj
Entrepreneur with expertise in Indian SMBs, E-commerce, and Payments. Co-founded Zopper, scaling it to $20M+ funding and a PhonePe acquisition. Built PhonePe’s offline merchant ecosystem from 1M to 100M transactions. MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Eric
- First mobile engineer at Ramp - Scaled iOS team at Robinhood from 1->50+ - Founder of the AppDev team at Cornell University
Kaiyuan
Exploring disaster and emergency response, let's chat! Worked in Insurance, let's chat!
Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
Charlie
Charlie is the co-founder of Expo, a platform for building universal native apps using JavaScript. Previously co-founded Quora and led early engineering teams at Facebook.
Dhawal
Successful entrepreneur with background in eCommerce, AR, & Ad-Tech. Previously, I co-founded a venture backed startup that resulted in a successful exit to Walmart. I can help on go-to-market plans as well as product-market fit problems
Amir
Amir is a co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to serve and scale machine learning applications. Previously led data platform engineering at Clover Health and was Head of Engineering at Gumroad.
Kanjun
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company building human-like general intelligence by evolving self-supervised architectures to tackle human developmental milestones of increasing complexity. Kanjun is interested in human agency, institutions for discovery, social technologies, and understanding what machine learning algorithms might teach us about psychology.
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.

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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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