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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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
Riley
Working with Ani Kunaparaju on tooling for GTM teams. Previously product @ Nuro.ai.
Faraz
Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.
Daniel
Daniel Tatenko, seasoned detective - focused on leveraging AI to streamline crime reporting, reduce officer workload, and improve public safety by enhancing collaboration between law enforcement and the community.
Mike
Founded Skip (YC W18) now working on something new. Terrestrial and Internet Explorer.
Kevin
I'm working on an AI media company. Think Fox News / MSNBC but driven fully by AI, and distributed on modern platforms like TikTok. Previously, I started a web-scale crawler that I sold in 2022. I also do standup comedy and anything outdoors.
Ilan
Co-Founder @ Strut Motors
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.
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.
Santiago
Santi is the CEO and co-founder at Momentum.io. He was previously co-founder and CTO at Blameless, CTO of Whyline, first employee and Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, Staff engineer at Mulesoft. He cares about entrepreneurship, great company culture, building delightful products, and accomplishing great goals.

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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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