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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Zorayr
I was one of the early engineers on Messenger and helped to grow it to billions of people; after Messenger, spent a few years as an Engineering Manager on various new products within Facebook including stories and teens pillars. I am an engineer with a PMs hat that loves to help people. Reach out if there is anything I can help with!
Wenyu
Wenyu Jin is a Founding Engineer / Co-Founder at Unseen-AI with 10+ years' expertise in audio DSP, machine learning, and speech enhancement algorithms (Cruise, Sonos, Starkey). He holds 18 patents, authored 16 peer-reviewed papers, and earned a PhD in Acoustics from Victoria University of Wellington. He is an IEEE Senior Member.
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Herrick
Interested in broadening access to impactful technology. Previously built things at Affirm, Supermove, and Qualified.
Deanna
Deanna leads Customer Marketing at Writer. Previously, she was head of Product Marketing at Stripe and VP of Marketing at Wealthfront.
Braden
Building Clerk, Authentication for the Modern Web. Interested in making web applications more secure, and easier to build -- especially B2B SaaS. Web3 dabbler and vid climber of rocks and mountains, big and small.
Joshua
Building Vectorsmith, a new kind of model and vector store for truly intelligent search. Previously 9.5 years at Asana, prior to that a lot of music.
Waseem
I'm a cofounder of Pilot, a modern finance team offering the best bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. I'm an engineer by background and have cofounded and sold a couple of companies with friends I met while studying at MIT. In 2011, Ksplice was acquired by Oracle, and Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014.
William
Technical founder who builds from -1→0->1. Created ML-powered document platforms at AngelList, architected loan trading systems at ORSNN, and led engineering teams at Amazon. Solves complex challenges with Go, AWS, and AI to deliver market-ready solutions.
Nathan
Robotics/AI engineer researching diffusion policies at Stanford AI lab. Previously built open-source humanoid infra and simulator. Interested in scaling robotics infra & foundation models. Multidisciplinary science olympiad finalist (chem/bio/math/CS).

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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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