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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Arjun
Diving into the post-purchase CX space for hardware companies. Currently, business analyst at McKinsey. Formerly, software and product at Uber, startups. BS, MS in Computer Science from Columbia
Scott
Former finance leader and management consultant, exploring ideas as an affiliated co-founder.
Dhruv
Co-Founder and former CEO of Elsewhere, the Brooklyn live music company + club. Legislative and policy advocate for music, nightlife, and small business at city, state, and federal levels. Born in Mumbai, raised in CT. Yale undergrad, first career in endowment-style asset management. Lover of jazz, oceans, surfing, sailing, SCUBA, yoga, meditation, cooking, civics, and motorcycles. Talk to me about mental health, neurological disorders, and headaches. Or just about anything. Curious about all, and love to nerd out.
Daanish
Born in Kashmir. Left at 16 to attend Stanford, where I had the good luck of learning from some of the world's great thinkers. Founded a hacker-artist collective and an edtech co. Now shaping my next adventure. Ping me about books or nn pretraining!
Andrew
Andrew has spent his career building consumer software like Apple and Coinbase. Most recently, he cofounded Ziina, a venture backed startup based in Dubai on a mission to bring economic freedom to every person in the Middle East.
Omar
Web3 FF3 exploring gaming - https://www.omarmezenner.com
Aman
Building my second venture focused on Software Testing Automation with AI Agents. Previously Co-founded, TurboHire and scaled it to over $1m in ARR. Earlier worked as a Product Manager & Software Engineer at Microsoft.
Dwight
Founder, Chairman of Board for Whisper.ai. We are a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing.
Sudeep
Co-founder / CEO @ Autonomi AI | Ex-ML Engineering Lead @ToyotaResearch | CS PhD @MIT | #girldad , Co-founder / CEO @ Autonomi AI | Ex-ML Engineering Lead @ToyotaResearch | CS PhD @MIT | #girldad
Deanna
Deanna leads Customer Marketing at Writer. Previously, she was head of Product Marketing at Stripe and VP of Marketing at Wealthfront.

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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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