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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Asad
Asad is the CEO and co-founder of Jams, building new ways for people to connect and collaborate online. Previously VP of Creators and Monetization at Meta, where he led teams empowering the next generation of creators. He brings over a decade of experience at the intersection of product, content, and community.
Josh
Josh is a Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he leads research on agentic products. Previously co-founded Gantry to help teams improve ML products with human feedback, and has held research and teaching roles at OpenAI and UC Berkeley. He also co-organizes Full Stack Deep Learning.
Ilan
Co-Founder @ Strut Motors
Audrey
PhD in Lean Construction from UC Berkeley. Builder of big buildings like Tesla's giga factory in Austin TX. Co-founder of Fieldworks AI.
Jayanth
Co-Founder, CTO @ Riverline
Ram
You can call me Ram. Built & led teams across Google, Apple & Meta. Expertise in Firmware, OS, Wireless, Android. Early stage engineering experience as well.
Sheetal
From teaching --> technologist, passionate about story-telling and new forms of interaction design!
Evgeny
Founder of NeoSplice Therapeutics
Charlie
Founder, artist, & product leader building something new 🐣 Wrote distraction-blocker app SelfControl, started an ed-tech company, sold to Workday, worked on new product strategy there for 5 years Last 2 years: building big steel fire-shooting sculptures 🔥
Franck
Engineering leader with deep expertise in Web3 and large scale infrastructure. - VP of eng. at a DeFi crypto startup (Origin Protocol). Built smart contracts handling hundreds of millions of dollars. - Built search infra from ground up at Dropbox pre-IPO as tech lead. - Founded and managed the team that built the first Content ID system at YouTube pre Google acquisition. - Early engineer at PayPal, TLM for the Merchant facing engineering team

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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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